Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories

Richard Dalby, Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Wilkie Collins, Basil Copper, Ralph Adams Cram, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Amelia B. Edwards, Shamus Frazer, Louisa Baldwin, John Glasby, William Hope Hodgson, Fergus Hume, Henry James, M.R. James, Roger Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Margery Lawrence, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Nugent Barker, R.H. Malden, Richard Marsh, John Metcalfe, E. Nesbit, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vincent O’Sullivan, Roger Pater, William J. Wintle, Forrest Reid, E.F. Benson, L.T.C. Rolt, David G. Rowlands, Saki, Sapper, Montague Summers, Mark Twain, Mark Valentine, H. Russell Wakefield, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Ambrose Bierce, Edward Lucas White, Charles Birkin, Algernon Blackwood, Lucy M. Boston, A.M. Burrage, Charlotte Riddell

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4.00 · 1 ratings · 672 pages · Published: 01 Jan 1990
Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby, Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Wilkie Collins, Basil Copper, Ralph Adams Cram, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Amelia B. Edwards, Shamus Frazer, Louisa Baldwin, John Glasby, William Hope Hodgson, Fergus Hume, Henry James, M.R. James, Roger Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Margery Lawrence, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Nugent Barker, R.H. Malden, Richard Marsh, John Metcalfe, E. Nesbit, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vincent O’Sullivan, Roger Pater, William J. Wintle, Forrest Reid, E.F. Benson, L.T.C. Rolt, David G. Rowlands, Saki, Sapper, Montague Summers, Mark Twain, Mark Valentine, H. Russell Wakefield, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Ambrose Bierce, Edward Lucas White, Charles Birkin, Algernon Blackwood, Lucy M. Boston, A.M. Burrage, Charlotte Riddell
For as long as people have told stories, they have been fascinated by ghosts, specters, ghouls, and demons. The human mind is drawn irresistibly to the mysterious -- right down to the deepest recesses of fear. Here, in one value-packed volume are fifty macabre masterpieces from the greatest British and American practitioners of the art of the ghostly tale. Editor Richard Dalby has made an inspired selection that offers readers the very best work of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Victorian fireside hair-raisers, Edwardian magazine thrillers, elegant nightmares from the 1920s, and the more manic visions of modern times. Suspense, mystery, and horror specialists such as M. R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Amelia B. Edwards are prominently featured. So are such classic authors as Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Mark Twain. Modern writers are ably represented by Ramsey Campbell, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, and Basil Copper among others. So if you want to curl up with a good book, try The Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories. It just might curl your hair as well.

CONTENTS
Preface · Richard Dalby · pr
The Unsettled Dust · Robert Aickman ·
How He Left the Hotel · Louisa Baldwin ·
Whessoe · Nugent Barker ·
The Shuttered Room · E. F. Benson ·
An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce ·
Is There Anybody There? · Charles Birkin ·
The Whisperers · Algernon Blackwood ·
Curfew · L. M. Boston ·
I’m Sure It Was No. 31 · A. M. Burrage ·
The Guide · Ramsey Campbell ·
The Limping Ghost [“The Ghost Who Limped”] · R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost [“The Ghost’s Touch”] · Wilkie Collins
The House by the Tarn · Basil Copper ·
In Kropfsberg Keep · Ralph Adams Cram ·
The Ghost in all the Rooms · Daniel Defoe ·
The Bagman’s Uncle · Charles Dickens ·
The Bully of Brocas Court · Arthur Conan Doyle ·
In the Confessional · Amelia B. Edwards ·
The Tune in Dan’s Café · Shamus Frazer ·
Beyond the Bourne · John S. Glasby ·
The Valley of the Lost Children · William Hope Hodgson ·
The Sand-Walker · Fergus Hume ·
The Real Right Thing · Henry James ·
The Haunted Dolls’ House · M. R. James ·
The Wall-Painting · Roger Johnson ·
“They” · Rudyard Kipling ·
The Last Laugh · D. H. Lawrence ·
Robin’s Rath · Margery H. Lawrence ·
The Dream [“The Drunkard’s Dream”] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ·
The Sundial · R. H. Malden ·
The Fifteenth Man · Richard Marsh ·
Brenner’s Boy · John Metcalfe ·
Uncle Abraham’s Romance · E. Nesbit ·
What Was It? · Fitz-James O’Brien ·
The Next Room · Vincent O’Sullivan ·
The Footsteps of the Aventine · Roger Pater ·
William Wilson · Edgar Allan Poe ·
Courage · Forrest Reid ·
The Last of Squire Ennismore · Mrs. J. H. Riddell ·
The Garside Fell Disaster · L. T. C. Rolt ·
The Tears of Saint Agathé · David G. Rowlands
The Soul of Laploshka · Saki ·
The Old Dining-Room · Sapper ·
The Between-Maid · Montague Summers ·
A Ghost Story · Mark Twain ·
The Folly [Ralph Tyler] · Mark Valentine ·
Out of the Wrack I Rise · H. Russell Wakefield ·
In the Pines · Karl Edward Wagner ·
“Where Angels Fear...” · Manly Wade Wellman ·
The House of the Nightmare · Edward Lucas White ·
The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde ·
The Spectre Spiders · William J. Wintle
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    Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby, Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Wilkie Collins, Basil Copper, Ralph Adams Cram, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Amelia B. Edwards, Shamus Frazer, Louisa Baldwin, John Glasby, William Hope Hodgson, Fergus Hume, Henry James, M.R. James, Roger Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Margery Lawrence, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Nugent Barker, R.H. Malden, Richard Marsh, John Metcalfe, E. Nesbit, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vincent O’Sullivan, Roger Pater, William J. Wintle, Forrest Reid, E.F. Benson, L.T.C. Rolt, David G. Rowlands, Saki, Sapper, Montague Summers, Mark Twain, Mark Valentine, H. Russell Wakefield, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Ambrose Bierce, Edward Lucas White, Charles Birkin, Algernon Blackwood, Lucy M. Boston, A.M. Burrage, Charlotte Riddell

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