Modern ghosts
By: selected and translated from the works of Guy de Maupassant, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Alexander L. Kielland, Leopold Kompert, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, and Giovanni Magherini-Graziani ; the introduction by George William Curtis.
Contributors: Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.; Curtis, George William, 1824-1892.
Publisher: Harper & Bros.
Published: 1890
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre; ger; spa; ita
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Ghost stories
Description: This work contains a selection of ghost stories from masters' of the short story form.
Table of contents: title: The horla / from the French of Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Jonathan Sturges; title: Siesta / by Alexander L. Kielland ; translated from the German version of M. von Borch, by Charles Flint McClumpha; title: The tall woman / from the Spanish of Pedro de Alarcón ; translated by Rollo Ogden; title: On the river / from the French of Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Jonathan Sturges; title: Maese Perez, the organist / from the Spanish of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer ; translated by Rollo Ogden; title: Fioraccio / from the Italian of Giovanni Magherini-Graziani ; translated by Mary A. Craig; title: The silent woman / from the German of Leopold Komfert ; translated by Charles Flint McClumpha.