Famous psychic and ghost stories
By: edited by J. Walker McSpadden
Contributors: Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: American Ghost stories; English Ghost stories
Table of contents: title: Book one: Famous psychic stories. The white old maid / Nathaniel Hawthorne. The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe. The dream woman / Wilkie Collins. The open door / Margaret Oliphant. The stalls of Barchester cathedral / Montague Rhodes James. The man who went too far / E.F. Benson. Moxon's master / Ambrose Bierce. The beast with five fingers / W.F. Harvey. From the loom of the dead / Elia W. Peattie. The ghoul / Evangeline W. Blashfield. The shadows on the wall / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The widow's mite / Isaac 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 / Daniel Defoe. The tapestried chamber / Walter Scott. The old nurse's story / Mrs. Gaskell. The haunted and the haunters / Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The were-wolf / H.B. Marryat. What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien. The gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne. The storm-ship / by Washington Irving. The lady with the velvet collar / Washington Irving. Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe. Ms. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe. The phantom 'rickshaw / Rudyard Kipling. To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens. The bagman's story / Charles Dickens.