The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories

✍ Scribed by Michael Kelahan

• Publisher: Fall River Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 534 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

There is a life beyond the grave unlike the lives we live, and its ghostly character has inspired some of the ghastliest tales of terror committed to paper. The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories collects twenty-eight tales of ghosts and hauntings that rank as some of the most frightening fiction written in the past two centuries. Drawn from a rich heritage of horror stories that span the American and European continents, its contents give shape to that most ephemeral form--the ghost that lies in wait for the living, and that manifests to us in our most vulnerable moments. Selections include:

• "The Body-Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "The Upper Berth" by F. Marion Crawford
• " 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' " by M.R. James
• "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions
• "The Clock" by William Fryer Harvey
• "In the Vault" by H.P. Lovecraft Though occasionally invisible, and often...