Best of
Ghost-Stories

1937

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton


Edith Wharton - 1937
    Fine line-drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi enhance the mysterious and sometimes chilling mood.The lady's maid's bell (1904)The eyes (1910)Afterward (1910)Kerfol (1916)The triumph of night (1914)Miss Mary Pask (1925)Bewitched (1925)Mr Jones (1928)Pomegranate seed (1931)The looking glass (1935)All souls' (1937)

The Haunted Omnibus


Alexander LaingRobert Louis Stevenson - 1937
    Harvey"The Half Pint Flask": DuBose Heyward"The Brahman, The Thief, and The Ghost": The Panchatantra (Sanskrit)"The Treasure of Abbott Thomas": M.R. James"The Yellow Wallpaper": Charlotte Perkins Gilman"The King of the World": A.E. Coppard"Perez": W.L. George"The Wendigo": Algernon Blackwood"The Furnished Room": O. Henry"The Screaming Skull": F. Marion Crawford"The Monkey's Paw": W.W. Jacobs"The Horla": Guy de Maupassant"Laura": Saki (H.H. Munro)"The White People": Arthur Machen"Concerning Phantoms": Pliny the Younger (Latin)"Markheim": Robert Louis Stevenson"The Story of Ming-Y": Lafcadio Hearn"The Beast with Five Fingers": W.F. Harvey"Adam and Eve and Pinch Me": A.E. Coppard"Where Their Fire is not Quenched": May Sinclair"The Second Kalandar's Tale": Arabian Nights"Full Fathom Five": Alexander Woollcott"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge": Ambrose Bierce"The Ghost-Ship": Richard Middleton"The Feather Cloak of Hawaii": Johannes C. Andersen"The Gentleman from America": Michael ArlenThe Story of Glam (excerpt) by George Ainslie HightThe Ghosts of Wulakai by Owen LattimoreCasting the Runes by M. R. JamesA Man with Two Lives • (1905) • by Ambrose BierceThe Open Window • (1911) • s by SakiThe Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • by Algernon BlackwoodThe Haunted Hotel • (1878) • by Wilkie CollinsClorinda Walks in Heaven • (1922) • by A. E. CoppardThe Grendel Episode (excerpt) • by uncreditedGreen Thoughts • (1931) • by John CollierThe Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • by Edgar Allan PoeA Visitor from Down Under • (1926) • by L. P. HartleyThe Foghorn • (1933) • by Gertrude AthertonThe Cherry Tree • (1922) • by A. E. CoppardAfterward • (1910) • by Edith Wharton

A Second Century of Creepy Stories


Hugh WalpoleT.O. Beachcroft - 1937
    M. Burrage) "The Oak Saplings"* M.R. James "Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance"* Oliver Onions "The Beckoning Fair One"* Guy de Maupassant "The Horla"* F. Marion Crawford "The Upper Berth"* Hector Bolitho "The House in Half Moon Street"* T. O. Beachcroft "The Inn in the Estuary"* Marjorie Bowen "The Crown Derby Plate"* Henry James THE TURN OF THE SCREW* Margaret Irwin "Monsieur Seeks a Wife"* Ann Bridge "The Accident"* Martin Armstrong "Mrs. Vaudrey’s Journey"* A.M. Burrage "Browdean Farm"* M. Joyce "Perchance to Dream"* Shane Leslie "The Drummer of Gordonmuir"* Rupert Croft-Cooke "Banquo’s Chair"