Table of Contents

Guy de Maupassant
A Ghost
Montague Rhodes James
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
O, Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad
Margaret Oliphant
The Open Door
Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
The Deserted House
Erckmann-Chatrian
The Mysterious Sketch
Théophile Gautier
Clarimonde
Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The House and the Brain
Gertrude Atherton
The Bell in the Fog
The Striding Place
John Kendrick Bangs
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
Daniel Defoe
The Apparition of Mrs Veal
Fitz James O'Brien
What was it?
Brander Matthews
The Rival Ghosts
Violet Hunt
The Prayer
Charles Dickens
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
William Fryer Harvey
The Clock
The Beast with Five Fingers
Richard Le Gallienne
The Haunted Orchard
Robert W. Chambers
The Messenger
The Bridal Pair
A Pleasant Evening
Passeur
Bithia Mary Croker
Number Ninety
The Red Bungalow
Julius Long
The Pale Man
Ambrose Bierce
The Damned Thing
Edith Wharton
Afterward
Kerfol
Edward Frederic Benson
The Room in the Tower
The Man Who Went Too Far
Saki
The Open Window
William Hope Hodgson
The Whistling Room
The Horse of the Invisible
The Searcher of the End House
Henry James
The Real Right Thing
The Jolly Corner
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
Edith Nesbit
Man-size in Marble
John Charrington's Wedding
Uncle Abraham's Romance
In the Dark
Amelia Edwards
The Phantom Coach
H. G. Wells
The Red Room
W. W. Jacobs
The Well
Jerry Bundler
Ellen Glasgow
The Shadowy Third
Ralph Adams Cram
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince
The Dead Valley
H. F. Arnold
The Night Wire
Grant Allen
Wolverden Tower
Amyas Northcote
Brickett Bottom
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Lost Ghost
Vincent O' Sullivan
The Burned House
When I Was Dead
My Enemy and Myself
Thomas Graham Jackson
The Lady of Rosemount

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A stunning collection of more than 60 of the greatest ghost stories ever written.

About the Author

James Stevens is a connoisseur of horror fiction and in this collection he has selected tales by M.R. James, E. F. Benson, William Hope Hodgson, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Edith Wharton among others.