| Edition |
First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. |
| Contents |
Sweet William's ghost (a popular ballad) -- Family portraits / Johann August Apel -- Tapestried chamber, or The lady in the square / Sir Walter Scott -- Gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- No. 1 branch line: The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Since I died / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- Mrs. Zant and the ghost / Wilkie Collins -- Inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce -- Last of Squire Ennismore / Charlotte (Mrs. J.H.) Riddell -- Philosophy of relative existences / Frank Stockton -- Real right thing / Henry James -- Lady's maid's bell / Edith Wharton -- Ghost story / Mark Twain -- Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad / M. R. James -- Shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar -- Bowmen / Arthur Machen -- Substitute / Georgia Wood Pangborn. |
| Subject(S) |
Ghost stories, English.
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Ghost stories, American.
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Short stories.
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Ghost stories.
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Paranormal fiction.
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| Added Name(S) |
Morton, Lisa, 1958- editor.
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Klinger, Leslie S., editor.
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Apel, August, 1771-1816, author.
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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832, author.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911, author.
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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889, author.
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Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?, author.
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Riddell, J. H., Mrs., 1832-1906, author.
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Stockton, Frank R., 1834-1902, author.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916, author.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, author.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.
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James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936, author.
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Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953, author.
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Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947, author.
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Pangborn, Georgia Wood, 1872-1955, author.
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| ISBN |
9781643130200 (hardcover) |
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