num_pages: 546
description: Be afraid, be very afraid: really scary things can come in small packages, and these 100 frightening little tales offer big chills and thrills. They represent more than 150 year's worth of writing, and include the greats: H.P. Lovecraft ("The Terrible Old Man"), Ambrose Bierce ("The Stranger"), Lafcadio Hearn ("A Dead Secret"), Oscar Wilde ("The Sphinx Without a Secret"), and J. Sheridan Le Fanu ("The Ghost and the Bone-Setter"). Best of all, a variety of human emotions and behavior come to the fore, from avarice (August Derleth's "Pacific 421") to revenge (Thorp McCluskey's "Black Gold"), from jealousy (Steve Rasnic Tem's "Daddy") to honor (Edith Nesbit's "John Charrington's Wedding") to love (Darrell Schwietzer's "Clocks"). Using a minimum of elements, each ghost story in this collection will entertain, captivate, and evoke a powerful response in readers.	So be warned: you might not want to read these while you're all alone in the house... * xiii - Introduction - Stefan R. Dziemianowicz * 1 - Across the Moors - William Fryer Harvey - ss Midnight House and Other Tales, J.M. Dent, 1910 * 5 - Attorney for the Damned - Renier Wyers - ss Weird Tales May ’36 * 13 - Away - Barry N. Malzberg - ss A Treasury of American Horror Stories, ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh &amp; Martin H. Greenberg, Bonanza/Crown Books, 1985 * 16 - Behind the Screen - Dale Clark - ss Weird Tales Apr ’34 * 24 - Black Gold - Thorp McClusky - ss Weird Tales Apr ’37 * 29 - Bone to His Bone - E. G. Swain - ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales, W. Heffer: Cambridge, 1912 * 36 - The Burned House - Vincent O’Sullivan - ss The Century Oct ’16 * 43 - Clocks - Darrell Schweitzer - ss The Horror Show Spr ’89 * 46 - The Closed Door - Harold Ward - ss Weird Tales Dec ’33 * 53 - The Coat - A. E. D. Smith - ss Powers of Darkness, ed. Anon., P. Allan, 1934 * 59 - The Cold Embrace - Mary E. Braddon - ss Welcome Guest Sep 29, 1860 * 67 - Coming Home - Nina Kiriki Hoffman - ss Author’s Choice Monthly #14 ’90 * 75 - Concert to Death - Paul Ernst - ss Weird Tales Nov ’34 * 82 - The Considerate Hosts - Thorp McClusky - ss Weird Tales Dec ’39 * 92 - Daddy - Steve Rasnic Tem - vi Footsteps #7 ’86 * 95 - Dark Mummery - Thorp McClusky - ss Weird Tales Nov ’44 * 103 - Date in the City Room - Talbot Johns - ss Weird Tales Jan ’39 * 107 - A Dead Secret - Lafcadio Hearn - vi Kwaidan, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 * 109 - The Door - Henry S. Whitehead - ss Weird Tales Nov ’24 * 113 - Drowned Argosies - J. Wilmer Benjamin - ss Weird Tales Jul ’34 * 117 - Dust - Edna Goit Brintnall - ss Weird Tales Jul ’32 * 121 - Edge of the Cliff - Dorothy Quick - vi Weird Tales Mar ’41 * 124 - Faces [Strange Tales from Santo Domingo] - Arthur J. Burks - ss Weird Tales Apr ’27 * 131 - Fancy That - J. N. Williamson - ss Fantasy Tales, v.10 #1, ed. Stephen Jones &amp; David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1988 * 135 - Father Macclesfield’s Tale - R. H. Benson - ss A Mirror of Shalott, London: Pitman, 1907 * 141 - The Furnished Room - O. Henry - ss The Four Million, Doubleday, 1906 * 147 - The Garret of Madame Lemoyne - W. K. Mashburn, Jr. - ss Weird Tales Jan ’28 * 153 - The Ghost and the Bone-Setter - J. Sheridan Le Fanu - ss Dublin University Magazine Jan, 1838 * 161 - A Ghost-Child - Bernard Capes - ss The Pall Mall Magazine Jan ’06 * 167 - The Ghost Farm - Susan Andrews Rice - vi Weird Tales May ’25 * 170 - Ghost Story [“Skyghosts and Dusk-Devils”] - Alan Brennert - ss Future Pastimes, ed. Scott Edelstein, Aurora, 1977 * 174 - The Ghosts at Haddon-le-Green - Alfred I. Tooke - vi Weird Tales Feb ’38 * 176 - Ghosts of the Air - J. M. Hiatt &amp; Moye W. Stephens - ss Weird Tales Jun ’26 * 182 - Gibbler’s Ghost [“Full of, Mostly, Bagels and Cream Cheese”] - William F. Nolan - ss Alien Horizons, Pocket, 1974 * 186 - A Grammatical Ghost - Elia W. Peattie - ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales, Macmillan, 1898 * 191 - The Grey Room - Stefan Grabinski; trans. by Miroslaw Lipinski - ss * * 198 - Guarded - Mearle Prout - ss Weird Tales Mar ’38 * 203 - Harmless Ghosts [Penelope Pettiweather] - Jessica Amanda Salmonson - ss Harmless Ghosts, Haunted Library, 1990 * 209 - The Haunted Burglar - W. C. Morrow - ss Lippincott’s Jul, 1897 * 213 - He Walked by Day - Julius Long - ss Weird Tales Jun ’34 * 219 - Her New Parents - Steve Rasnic Tem - pm Weirdbook #23 ’88 * 225 - Highwaymen - W. Benson Dooling - ss Weird Tales Feb ’29 * 229 - The Honor of Don Pedro - Wallace J. Knapp - ss Weird Tales Jul ’35 * 236 - The House of Shadows - Mary Elizabeth Counselman - ss Weird Tales Apr ’33 * 243 - How He Left the Hotel - Louisa Baldwin - ss The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories, Dent, 1895 * 247 - Jerry Bundler - W. W. Jacobs - ss The Windsor Magazine Dec, 1897 * 254 - John Charrington’s Wedding - Edith Nesbit - ss Temple Bar Sep, 1891 * 260 - Kharu Knows All - Renier Wyers - ss Weird Tales Jul ’36 * 266 - The Last of Squire Ennismore - Mrs. J. H. Riddell - ss Idle Tales, Ward &amp; Downey, 1888 * 272 - The Light Was Green - John Rawson Speer - ss Weird Tales Jan ’38 * 279 - McGill’s Appointment - Elsie Ellis - vi Weird Tales Jan ’26 * 281 - The Man on B-17 - Stephen Grendon - ss Weird Tales May ’50 * 286 - Mandolin - Will Oursler - ss Weird Tales Jun ’34 * 289 - The Metronome - August W. Derleth - ss Terror by Night, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, London: Selwyn &amp; Blount, 1934 * 295 - Miss Prue - Fred Chappell - ss Cold Mountain Review Spr ’81 * 298 - Monsieur De Guise - Perley Poore Sheehan - ss The Scrap Book Jan ’11 * 303 - Mordecai’s Pipe - A. V. Milyer - vi Weird Tales Jun ’36 * 305 - The Murderer’s Violin [“The Violin of the Man That Was Hanged”] - Erckmann-Chatrian - ss Dublin University Magazine Sep, 1876 * 311 - The Night Caller - G. L. Raisor - ss The Horror Show Sum ’89 * 315 - The Night Wire - H. F. Arnold - ss Weird Tales Sep ’26 * 321 - O Come Little Children... - Chet Williamson - ss Spirits of Christmas, ed. Kathryn Cramer &amp; David G. Hartwell, Wynwood, 1989 * 330 - On the Brighton Road - Richard Middleton - ss The Ghost Ship, Unwin, 1912 * 333 - Our Late Visitor [as by Joseph Lavinson] - Marvin Kaye - ss Brother Theodore’s Chamber of Horrors, ed. Marvin Kaye, Pinnacle, 1975 * 337 - Out of Copyright - Ramsey Campbell - ss Hot Air, 1980 * 344 - Pacific 421 - August W. Derleth - ss Weird Tales Sep ’44 * 352 - The Pedicab - Donald R. Burleson - ss * * 358 - The Phantom Express - H. Thompson Rich - vi Weird Tales Oct ’26 * 360 - The Piper from Bhutan - David Bernard - ss Weird Tales Feb ’38 * 366 - The Rats - M. R. James - ss Shudders, Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1929 * 371 - The Readjustment - Mary Austin - ss Harper’s Monthly Apr ’08 * 377 - Rebels’ Rest - Seabury Quinn - ss Weird Tales Jul ’50 * 384 - Relationships - Robert Sampson - ss Strange Plasma #1 ’89 * 390 - Rendezvous - Richard H. Hart - ss Weird Tales Jan ’36 * 397 - The Return - R. Murray Gilchrist - ss The National Observer * 402 - The Return [as by Marjory E. Lambe] - G. G. Pendarves - ss Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Mar ’24 * 406 - Rose Rose - Barry Pain - ss The London Magazine May ’10 * 412 - Safety Zone - Barry Malzberg - ss New England Ghosts, ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh &amp; Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press, 1990 * 418 - Shadows Cast Behind - Otto E. A. Schmidt - ss Weird Tales Apr ’27 * 426 - Shadows in the Grass [“Shadows on the Grass”] - Steve Rasnic Tem - ss The Nineteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, ed. R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Fontana, 1983 * 430 - The Sixth Tree - Edith Lichty Stewart - ss Weird Tales May-Jul ’24 * 434 - The Soul of Laploshka - Saki - ss Reginald in Russia, 1910 * 438 - The Sphinx Without a Secret [“Lady Alroy”] - Oscar Wilde - ss The World May 25, 1887 * 442 - The Splendid Lie - S. B. H. Hurst - vi Weird Tales Jul ’32 * 445 - A Sprig of Rosemary - H. Warner Munn - ss Weird Tales Jun ’33 * 452 - The Stone Coffin - B - ss Magdalene Collage Magazine Dec ’13 * 458 - A Strange Goldfield - Guy Boothby - ss The Lady of the Island, London: John Long, 1904 * 464 - The Stranger - Ambrose Bierce - ss Cosmopolitan Feb ’09 * 468 - Summerland - Avram Davidson - ss F&amp;SF Jul ’57 * 472 - The Terrible Old Man - H. P. Lovecraft - vi The Tryout Jul ’21 * 475 - The Terror by Night - E. F. Benson - ss The Room in the Tower and Other Stories, London: Mills Boon, 1912 * 481 - The Theater Upstairs - Manly Wade Wellman - ss Weird Tales Dec ’36 * Thirteen Phantasms * 490 - Three Gentlemen in Black - August W. Derleth - ss Weird Tales Aug ’38 * 498 - The Tree-Man Ghost - Percy B. Prior - ss Weird Tales Mar ’28 * 502 - The True History of Anthony Ffryar [as by Ingulphus] - Arthur Gray - ss The Cambridge Review Feb 16 ’11 * 508 - Two - Al Sarrantonio - ss The Horror Show Fll ’88 * 516 - Under the Eaves - Helen M. Reid - vi Weird Tales Jun ’32 * 519 - A Visitor from Far Away - Loretta G. Burrough - ss Weird Tales Feb ’36 * 525 - Waiter Number 34 - Paul Ernst - ss Weird Tales Jul ’35 * 534 - The Woman in Gray - Walker G. Everett - ss Weird Tales Jun ’35 * 539 - The Word of Bentley - E. Hoffmann Price - ss Weird Tales May ’33
language: English
title: 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories/1858653
titlecomplete: 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories/1858653
genres: Fiction, Paranormal, Ghost Stories, Dark, Supernatural, Anthologies, Ghosts, Horror, Fantasy, Short Stories
ratings_count: 271
publisher: Barnes & Noble