Great American Ghost Stories

• Book ID: 104471722
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1493029363

✦ Synopsis

A ghoulish collection of true American classics, long-forgotten and legendary With frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Willa Cather, and lesser known authors, this ghostly collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales we love to read about-all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons's outstanding Americana library.;The crime of Micah Rood / by Elia W. Peattie -- 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 lady's maid's bell / by Edith Wharton -- A ghost story / by Mark Twain -- The night call / by Henry van Dyke -- Tom Toothacre's ghost story / by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A strange story from the coast / by Rebecca Harding Davis -- The woman at seven brothers / by Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The furnished room / by O. Henry -- The cross-roads / by Amy Lowell -- Jean-ah Poquelin / by George Washington Cable -- Mistress Marian's light / by Gertrude Morton -- Consequences / by Willa Cather -- The tell-tale heart / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The wind in the rose-bush / by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.