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It's an anthology. Some of the stories are better than others, but even the worst of them is worth at least three stars. If, as I do, you have quite a few books of ghost stories, you'd probably like to know if there are any in this book that you don't have already. That's why I've listed all 34 that are in this collection. I was lucky: all but 9 were ones I hadn't read before. I got the real names of some of the authors from the introduction, which I recommend reading after the stories because it contains spoilers.
'The Furnished Room' by O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) A man on a desperate search rents a room in a house that sounds as if it's too disgusting even for cockroaches.
'The Canterville Ghost' by Oscar Wilde An experienced English ghost tries his old tricks on an American family of non-believers. (This story is an old favorite of mine -- it's funnier than the 1944 movie.)
'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe A wounded man is fascinated by one of the paintings in the room where he is staying.
'The Tapestried Chamber' by Sir Walter Scott General Browne, returned to England after the American Revolution, finds his old friend's hospitality less comfortable than an old tobacco cask he once slept in during the war.
'An Account of the Strange Disturbances at Aungier Street' by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Two young cousins learn that free rent can be too costly.
'The Ghost Detective' by Mark Lemon Was it a ghost who solved the case of the missing money?
'The Horla' by Guy de Maupassant Who enters the journal writer's locked room at night to drink his water and milk?
'The Story of the Unknown Church' by William Morris A master-mason tells the story of a church he helped to build.
'The Old Nurse's Story' by Mrs. Gaskell (Elizabeth Cleghorn) The old nurse tells her current charges about a deadly peril their mother was in when she was a little girl.
'The Last Drop' by Sarah Bernhardt (Rosine Bernard) Of what is an old duke so terrified?
'The Romance of Some Old Cloths' by Henry James It's not wise to induce someone to break a deathbed promise...
'The Phantom Coach' by Amelia B. Edwards A newlywed man is desperate to get back to his bride before morning.
'The Devil's Wager' by William Makepeace Thackeray The wager is for the ultimate fate of a sinner's soul.
'Teigue of the Lee' by T. Crofton Croker Teigue is heard, but never seen, and does not care for scoffers.
'The Captain of the Pole-star' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Bad enough that the ship could become trapped with all on board -- it's haunted, too.
'The Haunted Mill or the Ruined House' by Jerome K. Jerome The introduction, which is a humorous look at ghost stories, takes up over half the pages, but it's the best part.
'The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton' by Charles Dickens Scrooge had it easier.
'The Case of the Reverend Mr. Toomey' by S. B. T. Father Toomey has a deadly secret.
'The Spectre of Tappington' by Thomas Ingoldsby (Rev. Richard Barham) An unfortunate visitor keeps dreaming about a dead man and waking to find something of his missing.
'The Hollow of the Three Hills' by Nathaniel Hawthorne A beautiful young woman is so desperate for information that she consults a crone with uncanny powers.
'The Lady of Rosemount' by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson An Oxford student with antiquarian tastes makes a dangerous discovery about a long-dead countess.
'Grey Dolphin' by Thomas Ingoldsby (Rev. Richard Barham) An arrogant baron finds a foe from which his sword, Tickletoby, can't save him.
'Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman' by Wilkie Collins The defendant was acquitted, so why is the clergyman so certain he was guilty?
'The Homing Bone' by Conell Cearnach (Frederick O'Connell) An anatomist covets a bone lying in a churchyard.
'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton It was definitely an ill wind that blew the ghost ship in to Fairfield.
'The Body Snatcher' by Robert Louis Stevenson An eerie tale from the time of the infamous Burke and Hare. (The Boris Karloff movie differs from it somewhat, but retains the atmosphere.)
'Napoleon and the Spectre' by Charlotte Brontë Bonaparte has an unwelcome night visitor.
'The Story of the Moor Road' by E. and H. Heron (Kate Pritchard and her son, Hesketh) Something not human is lurking on the Moor Road.
'Man-size in Marble' by Edith Nesbit A skeptic who has moved to a new neighborhood ignores a warning about going outside on Halloween.
'The Last of Squire Ennismore' by Mrs. J. H. Riddell A very strange stranger pays a call on a wicked squire.
'The Bagman's Story' by Charles Dickens A bagman gets advice from an unusual source.
'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy A dream has bad consequences for an innocent person.
'The Moonlit Road' by Ambrose Bierce The son of a murder victim, the killer, and the ghost of the victim tell the story.
'Ghosts That Have Haunted Me' by John Kendrick Bangs A man gives practical advice on dealing with ghosts and gives it in an amusing style. Mr. Bangs also wrote the equally amusing "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" that you might have read if your library had a copy of Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts, edited by Phyllis R. Fenner. ( )
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RESTLESS, shifting, fugacious as time itself, is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red-brick district of the lower West Side. ['The Furnished Room']
When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, everyone told him he was doing a very foolish thing as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. ['The Canterville Ghost']
The château into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass the night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Apennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe. ['The Oval Portrait']
About the end of the American war, when the officers of Lord Cornwallis's army which surrendered at York-town, and others, who had been made prisoners during the impolitic and ill-fated controversy, were returning to their own country, to relate their adventures and repose themselves after their fatigues, there was amongst them a general officer of the name of Browne. ['The Tapestried Chamber']
My cousin (Tom Ludlow) and I studied medicine together. ['An Account of the Strange Disturbances at Aungier Street']
'You take an interest in Christmas legends, I believe?' said my friend Carraway, passing the claret. ['The Ghost Detective']
May 8. What a lovely day! ['The Horla']
I was the master-mason of a church that was built more than six hundred years ago; it is now more than two hundred years since that church vanished from the face of the earth; it was destroyed utterly -- no fragment of it was left; not even the great pillars that bore up the towers at the cross, where the choir used to join the nave. ['The Story of the Unknown Church']
You know my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmorland, where I come from. ['The Old Nurse's Story']
The Château de Ploerneuf was the terror of the Bretons. ['The Last Drop']
Towards the middle of the eighteenth century there lived in the Province of Massachusetts a widowed gentlewoman, the mother of three children, by name Mrs. Veronica Wingrave. ['The Romance of Some Old Cloths']
The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them. ['The Phantom Coach']
It was the hour of the night when there be none stirring save churchyard ghosts -- when all doors are closed except the gates of graves, and all eyes shut but the eyes of wicked men. ['The Devil's Wager']
'I can't stop in the house -- I won't stop in it for all the money that is buried in the old castle of Carrigrohan.' ['Teigue of the Lee']
[Being an extract from the journal of John McAlister Ray, student of medicine, kept by him during the six months' voyage in the Arctic Seas, of the steam-whaler Pole-star, of Dundee, Captain Nicholas Craigie.] ['The Captain of the Pole-star']
The time has come when the truth of this matter should be set on record. ['The Case of the Reverend Mr. Toomey']
It is very odd, though; what can have become of them? said Charles Seaforth, as he peeped under the valance of an old-fashioned bedstead, in an old-fashioned appartment of a still more old-fashioned manor; 'tis confoundedly odd, and I can't make it out at all. ['The Spectre of Tappington']
In those strange old times, when fantastic dreams and madmen's reveries were realized among the actual circumstances of life, two persons met together at an appointed hour and place. ['The Hollow of the Three Hills']
It was Christmas Eve. ['The Haunted Mill or the Ruined House']
In an old abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago -- so long, the story must be a true one, because our great-grandfathers implicitly believed it -- there officiated as sexton and grave-digger in the churchyard, one Gabriel Grub. ['The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton']
And so, Charlton, you're going to spend part of the Long at Rosemount Abbey. ['The Lady of Rosemount']
He won't - won't he? ['Grey Dolphin']
My brother, the clergyman, looked over my shoulder before I was aware of him, and discovered that the volume which completely absorbed my attention was a collection of Famous Trials, published in a new edition and in a popular form. ['Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman']
Professor David Gillespie was a distinguished anatomist. ['The Homing Bone']
Fairfield is a little village lying near the Portsmouth Road about half-way between London and the sea. ['The Ghost Ship']
Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham - the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself. ['The Body Snatcher']
Well, as I was saying, the Emperor got into bed. ['Napoleon and the Spectre']
'The medical profession must always have its own peculiar offshoots,' said Mr. Flaxman Low, 'some are trades, some mere hobbies, others, again, are allied subjects of a serious and profound nature.' ['The Story of the Moor Road']
Although every word of this story is as true as despair, I do not expect people to believe it. ['Man-size in Marble']
Did I see it myself? ['The Last of Squire Ennismore']
One winter's evening, about five o'clock, just as it began to grow dusk, a man in a gig might have been seen urging his tired horse along the road which leads across Marlborough Downs, in the direction of Bristol. ['The Bagman's Story']
It was an eighty-cow dairy, and the troop of milkers, regular and supernumerary, were all at work; for though the time of year was as yet but early April, the feed lay entirely in water-meadows and the cows were 'in full pail'. ['The Withered Arm']
I am the most unfortunate of men. ['The Moonlit Road']
If we could only get used to the idea that ghosts are perfectly harmless creatures, who are powerless to affect our well-being unless we assist them by giving way to our fears, we should enjoy the supernatural exceedingly, it seems to me. ['Ghosts That Have Haunted Me']
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Do fill up your glass again, Mrs. McCool. ['The Furnished Room']
And then the brush was given, and then the tint was placed; and, for one moment, the painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought; but in the next, while he yet gazed, he grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud voice, 'This is indeed Life itself! turned suddenly to regard his beloved: -- She was dead!' ['The Oval Portrait']
Thus the friends, who had met with such glee, parted in a very different mood; Lord Woodville to command the Tapestried Chamber to be unmantled and the door built up; and General Browne to seek in some less beautiful country, and with some less dignified friend, forgetfulness of the painful night which he had passed in Woodville Castle. ['The Tapestried Chamber']
I have now told you my own and Tom's adventures, together with some valuable collateral particulars; and having acquitted myself of my engagements, I wish you a very good night, and pleasant dreams. ['An Account of the Strange Disturbances at Aungier Street']
So my life passed, and I lived in that abbey for twenty years after he died, till one morning, quite early, when they came into the church for matins, they found me lying dead, with my chisel in my hand, underneath the last lily of the tomb. ['The Story of the Unknown Church']
Her lips were parted in entreaty, in dismay, in agony; and on her blanched brow and cheeks there glowed the marks of ten hideous wounds from two vengeful ghostly hands. ['The Romance of Some Old Cloths']
Others may form what conclusions they please -- I know that twenty years ago I was the fourth inside passenger in that Phantom Coach. ['The Phantom Coach']
I shall only add, that Mr. and Mrs. Seaforth are living together quite happily as two good-hearted, good-tempered bodies, are very fond of each other, can possibly do: and, that since the day of his marriage Charles has shown no disposition to jump out of bed, or ramble out of doors o' nights - though, from his entire devotion to every wish and whim of his young wife, Tom insinuates that the fair Caroline does still occasionally take advantage of it so far as to 'slip on the breeches'. ['The Spectre of Tappington']
But this opinion, which was by no means a popular one at any time, gradually died off; and be the matter how it may, as Gabriel Grub was afflicted with rheumatism to the end of his days, this story has at least one moral, if it teach no better one -- that is, that if a man turn sulky and drink by himself at Christmas time, he may make up his mind to be not a bit the better for it, let the spirits be never so good, or let them be even be as many degrees beyond proof, as those which Gabriel Grub saw in the goblin's cavern. ['The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton']
But strange to say, though every fragment of masonry was carefully examined and accounted for, no trace could be found of any alabaster figure nor of the tomb of the Comitissa Alianora. ['The Lady of Rosemount']
Close behind his dexter calf lies sculptured in bold relief a horse's head: and a respectable elderly lady, as she shows the monument, fails not to read her auditors a fine moral lesson on the sin of ingratitude or to claim a sympathizing tear to the memory of poor 'Grey Dolphin'! ['Grey Dolphin']
Landlord's field wasn't a penny worse for the visit, but they do say that since then the turnips that have been grown in it have tasted of rum. ['The Ghost Ship']
A wild yell rang up into the night; each leaped from his own side into the roadway; the lamp fell, broke, and was extinguished; and the horse, terrified by this unusual commotion, bounded and went off toward Edinburgh at a gallop, bearing along with it, sole occupant of the gig, the body of the dead and long-dissected Gray. ['The Body Snatcher']
The Emperor immediately fell into a fit of catalepsy, in which he continued during the whole of that night and the greater part of the next day. ['Napoleon and the Spectre']
If it be true that this nameless wandering spirit, with the strength and activity of twenty men, still haunts our lonely roads, the sooner Mr. Flaxman Low exorcises it the better. ['The Story of the Moor Road']
And he used to drive about the country, with the clay-coloured gig with red wheels, and the vixenish mare with the fast pace, till he gave up business many years afterwards, and went to France with his wife: and then the old house was pulled down. ['The Bagman's Story']
Here, sometimes, those who knew her experiences would stand and observe her, and wonder what sombre thoughts were beating inside that impassive, wrinkled brow, to the rhythm of the alternating milkstreams.['The Withered Arm']
Well, as an eminent master of fiction frequently observes in his writings, 'that is another story,' which I shall hope some day to tell for your instruction and my aggrandisement. ['Ghosts That Have Haunted Me']
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These thirty-four spooky tales from British and American masters of literature such as Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, O. Henry, Oscar Wilde, and Nathaniel Hawthorne will thrill you to the bone. Scary, thrilling, suspenseful, mysterious, sometimes even amusing and heartwarming, these are some of the most outstanding ghost stories of all time. Vivid atmospheric drawings accompany the stories and add to their power.
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'The Furnished Room' by O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
A man on a desperate search rents a room in a house that sounds as if it's too disgusting even for cockroaches.
'The Canterville Ghost' by Oscar Wilde
An experienced English ghost tries his old tricks on an American family of non-believers. (This story is an old favorite of mine -- it's funnier than the 1944 movie.)
'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe
A wounded man is fascinated by one of the paintings in the room where he is staying.
'The Tapestried Chamber' by Sir Walter Scott
General Browne, returned to England after the American Revolution, finds his old friend's hospitality less comfortable than an old tobacco cask he once slept in during the war.
'An Account of the Strange Disturbances at Aungier Street' by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Two young cousins learn that free rent can be too costly.
'The Ghost Detective' by Mark Lemon
Was it a ghost who solved the case of the missing money?
'The Horla' by Guy de Maupassant
Who enters the journal writer's locked room at night to drink his water and milk?
'The Story of the Unknown Church' by William Morris
A master-mason tells the story of a church he helped to build.
'The Old Nurse's Story' by Mrs. Gaskell (Elizabeth Cleghorn)
The old nurse tells her current charges about a deadly peril their mother was in when she was a little girl.
'The Last Drop' by Sarah Bernhardt (Rosine Bernard)
Of what is an old duke so terrified?
'The Romance of Some Old Cloths' by Henry James
It's not wise to induce someone to break a deathbed promise...
'The Phantom Coach' by Amelia B. Edwards
A newlywed man is desperate to get back to his bride before morning.
'The Devil's Wager' by William Makepeace Thackeray
The wager is for the ultimate fate of a sinner's soul.
'Teigue of the Lee' by T. Crofton Croker
Teigue is heard, but never seen, and does not care for scoffers.
'The Captain of the Pole-star' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Bad enough that the ship could become trapped with all on board -- it's haunted, too.
'The Haunted Mill or the Ruined House' by Jerome K. Jerome
The introduction, which is a humorous look at ghost stories, takes up over half the pages, but it's the best part.
'The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton' by Charles Dickens
Scrooge had it easier.
'The Case of the Reverend Mr. Toomey' by S. B. T.
Father Toomey has a deadly secret.
'The Spectre of Tappington' by Thomas Ingoldsby (Rev. Richard Barham)
An unfortunate visitor keeps dreaming about a dead man and waking to find something of his missing.
'The Hollow of the Three Hills' by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A beautiful young woman is so desperate for information that she consults a crone with uncanny powers.
'The Lady of Rosemount' by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson
An Oxford student with antiquarian tastes makes a dangerous discovery about a long-dead countess.
'Grey Dolphin' by Thomas Ingoldsby (Rev. Richard Barham)
An arrogant baron finds a foe from which his sword, Tickletoby, can't save him.
'Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman' by Wilkie Collins
The defendant was acquitted, so why is the clergyman so certain he was guilty?
'The Homing Bone' by Conell Cearnach (Frederick O'Connell)
An anatomist covets a bone lying in a churchyard.
'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton
It was definitely an ill wind that blew the ghost ship in to Fairfield.
'The Body Snatcher' by Robert Louis Stevenson
An eerie tale from the time of the infamous Burke and Hare. (The Boris Karloff movie differs from it somewhat, but retains the atmosphere.)
'Napoleon and the Spectre' by Charlotte Brontë
Bonaparte has an unwelcome night visitor.
'The Story of the Moor Road' by E. and H. Heron (Kate Pritchard and her son, Hesketh)
Something not human is lurking on the Moor Road.
'Man-size in Marble' by Edith Nesbit
A skeptic who has moved to a new neighborhood ignores a warning about going outside on Halloween.
'The Last of Squire Ennismore' by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
A very strange stranger pays a call on a wicked squire.
'The Bagman's Story' by Charles Dickens
A bagman gets advice from an unusual source.
'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy
A dream has bad consequences for an innocent person.
'The Moonlit Road' by Ambrose Bierce
The son of a murder victim, the killer, and the ghost of the victim tell the story.
'Ghosts That Have Haunted Me' by John Kendrick Bangs
A man gives practical advice on dealing with ghosts and gives it in an amusing style. Mr. Bangs also wrote the equally amusing "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" that you might have read if your library had a copy of Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts, edited by Phyllis R. Fenner. (