num_pages: 528
description: Over forty spine-tingling ghost stories featuring contributions from: Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Algernon Blackwood, Ramsey Campbell, Daniel Defoe, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence and many more.For as long as people have told stories, they have been fascinated by ghosts, spectres, ghouls and demons. In this inspired collection, Richard Dalby brings together over forty of the greatest ghost stories ever written.From classic authors of the nineteenth century including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, to the most recent stars of modern ghost fiction such as Ramsey Campbell, Robert Aickman and Basil Copper, this is the ultimate collection of macabre masterpieces.Ranging from gothic graveyards to spine-tingling scenes from the modern age, these supernatural tales are guaranteed to chill the bones.Preface --Robert Aickman / The unsettled dust --Louisa Baldwin / How he left the hotel --Nugent Barker / Whessoe --E.F. Benson / The shuttered room --Ambrose Bierce / An inhabitant of Carcosa --Charles Birkin / Is there anybody there? --Algernon Blackwood / The whisperers --L.M. Boston / Curfew --A.M. Burrage / I'm sure it was no. 31 --Ramsey Campbell / The guide --R. Chetwynd-Hayes / The limping ghost --Wilkie Collins / Mrs. Zant and the ghost --Basil Copper / The house by the tarn --Ralph A. Cram / In Kropfsberg Keep --Daniel Defoe / The ghost in all the rooms --Charles Dickens / The bagman's uncle --Arthur Conan Doyle / The Bully of Brocas Court --Amelia B. Edwards / In the confessional --Shamus Frazer / The tune in Dan's Café --John S. Glasby / Beyond the bourne --William Hope Hodgson / The Valley of Lost Children --Fergus Hume / The sand-walker --Henry James / The real right thing --M.R. James / The haunted doll's house --Roger Johnson / The wall-painting --Rudyard Kipling / "They" --D.H. Lawrence / The last laugh --Margery Lawrence / Robin's rath --J. Sheridan Le Fanu / The dream --R.H. Malden / The sundial --Richard March / The fifteenth man --John Metcalfe / Brenner's boy --Edith Nesbit / Uncle Abraham's romance --Fitz-James O'Brien / What was it? --Vincent O'Sullivan / The next room --Roger Pater / The footstep of the Aventine --Edgar Allan Poe / William Wilson --Forrest Reid / Courage --Mrs. J.H. Riddell / The last of Squire Ennismore --L.T.C. Rolt / The Garside Fell Disaster --David G. Rowlands / The tears of Saint Agathé --'SAKI' / The soul of Laploshka
language: English
title: The World's Greatest Ghost Stories
titlecomplete: The World's Greatest Ghost Stories
genres: Short Stories, Anthologies, Horror, Paranormal, Fantasy
ratings_count: 46
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Magpie Books