The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told

✍ Scribed by Brennan, Stephen

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Series: Best Stories Ever Told
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; CONENTS; Introduction Stephen Brennan; The Monkey's Paw W.W. Jacobs; Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes Rudyard Kipling; The Mystery of Barney O'Rourke John Kendrick Bangs; The Red-Haired Girl Sabine Baring-Gould; The Man and The Snake Ambrose Bierce; The Open Window Saki (H.H. Munro); The Story of Salome Amelia B. Edwards; The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe; John Charrington's Wedding E. Nesbit; The Old Nurse's Story Elizabeth Gaskell; The Business of Madame Jahn Vincent O'Sullivan; The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde.;When "gut feelings" have been replaced by a thirst for proof and hard evidence, it's good to know that you can still be spooked by a collection like this one. Best Ghost Stories is a creepy group of over forty tales by some of the most impressive names in the writing world. Terrifying, bone-chillingly eerie, and good fun, these haunting narratives give vivid descriptions of creepy characters and happenings that will make you hesitate before turning out the light!More than just a niche product, ghost stories hold a bewitching appeal for all kinds of writers and reader.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
CONENTS
Introduction Stephen Brennan
The Monkey's Paw W.W. Jacobs
Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes Rudyard Kipling
The Mystery of Barney O'Rourke John Kendrick Bangs
The Red-Haired Girl Sabine Baring-Gould
The Man and The Snake Ambrose Bierce
The Open Window Saki (H.H. Munro)
The Story of Salome Amelia B. Edwards
The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe
John Charrington's Wedding E. Nesbit
The Old Nurse's Story Elizabeth Gaskell
The Business of Madame Jahn Vincent O'Sullivan
The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde. A Haunted Island Algernon BlackwoodThe Secret of Macarger's Gulch Ambrose Bierce
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Henry James
The Lost Ghost Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Man-Size in Marble E. Nesbit
The Queen of Spades Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith E. and H. Heron
Number 13 M.R. James
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal Daniel Defoe
Round the Fire Catherine Crowe
The Isle of Voices R.L. Stevenson
The Plattner Story H.G. Wells
On the Brighton Road Richard Middleton
The Last House in C- Street Dinah M. Mulock
The Furnished Room O. Henry. Hamlet's Ghost William ShakespeareCaterpillars E.F. Benson
The Black Mate Joseph Conrad
A Tough Tussle Ambrose Bierce
Napoleon and the Spectre Charlotte Brontë
John Jago's Ghost Wilkie Collins
The Terror Guy de Maupassant
Not to be Taken at Bed-Time Rosa Mulholland
The Haunted House Charles Dickens
The Bold Dragoon
or, The Adventure of My Grandfather Washington Irving
A Ghost Story Mark Twain
Afterward Edith Wharton
The Brown Hand Arthur Conan Doyle
The Affair at Grover Station Willa Cather.

✦ Subjects

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric;REFERENCE--Writing Skills;Short stories;Electronic books;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric;REFERENCE -- Writing Skills