A VENGEFUL PHANTOM LURKS IN A COUNTRY GRAVEYARD. A WHALING CREW BECOMES TRAPPED ON A HAUNTED SHIP. A HUMAN SKULL IS KEPT LOCKED IN A CUPBOARD, BUTSOMETIMES AT NIGHT, IT SCREAMS. . . . This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candl
Ghost stories 36 spine-chilling tales of terror and the supernatural
โ Scribed by Bill Bowers
- Publisher
- Lyons Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 311 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Guilford, Connecticut
- ISBN
- 1493057928
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Ghost Stories is a ghoulish collection of true classics, long-forgotten and legendary, with frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Willa Cather, and many others. Ghost Stories offers tales rooted in their time, place, and topic. This ghostly collection delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales of terror we love to read โ late at night, with the lights off.
Included are:
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe * The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving * An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce * The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle by Nathaniel Hawthorne * A Ghost of the Sierras by Bret Harte * The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford * The Lady's Maid's Bell by Edith Wharton * A Ghost Story by Mark Twain * The Night Call by Henry van Dyke * The Furnished Room by O. Henry * The Crime of Micah Rood by Elia W. Peattie * The...
โฆ Subjects
Fiction
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