Famous psychic and ghost stories
By: edited by J. Walker McSpadden.
Series: Short story index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Ghost stories, English; Ghost stories, American
Notes: First published in 1918.
Table of contents: title: Book one: Famous psychic stories. The white old maid, by N. Hawthorne. The facts in the case of M. Valdemar, by E. A. Poe.; title: The dream woman, by W. Collins. The open door, by M. Oliphant. The stalls of Barchester cathedral, by M. R. James. The man who went too far, by E. F. Benson. Moxon's master, by A. Bierce. The beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey. From the loom of the dead, by E. W. Peattie. The ghoul, by E. W. Blashfield. The shadows on the wall, by M. E. W. Freeman. The widow's mite, by I. K. Funk.; title: Book two: Famous ghost stories. A true relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal the next day after her death to one Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705, by D. Defoe. The tapestried chamber; or, The lady in the sacque, by Sir W. Scott. The old nurse's story, by Mrs. Gaskell. The haunted and the haunters; or, The house and the brain, by E. Bulwer-Lytton. The were-wolf, by H. B. Marryat. What was it? By Fitz-James O'Brien. The gray champion, by N. Hawthorne. The storm-ship, by W. Irving. The lady with the velvet collar; of, The adventure of the German student, by W. Irving. Ligeia, by E. A. Poe. MS. found in a bottle, by E. A. Poe. The phantom 'rickshaw, by R. Kipling. To be taken with a grain of salt, by C. Dickens. The bagman's story, by C. Dickens.