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The best ghost stories ever told
- Title
- The best ghost stories ever told / edited and introduced by Stephen Brennan.
- Publication
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-7958 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Brennan, Stephen Vincent.
- Description
- x, 559 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Presents a collection of ghost stories from such authors as Louisa May Alcott, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Ghost stories.
- Contents
- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- Green tea / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- Strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling -- Mystery of Barney O'Rourke / John Kendrick Bangs -- Red-haired girl / Sabine Baring-Gould -- Man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce -- Open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Story of Salome / Amelia B. Edwards -- Black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Business of Madame Jahn / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Canterville ghost / Oscar Wilde -- Haunted Island / Algernon Blackwood -- Secret of Macarger's Gulch / Ambrose Bierce -- Romance of certain old clothes / Henry James -- Lost ghost / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Man-size in marble / E. Nesbit -- Queen of spades / Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin -- Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith / E. and H. Heron -- Number 13 / M.R. James -- Apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- Round the fire / Catherine Crowe -- Isle of voices / R.L. Stevenson -- Plattner story / H.G. Wells -- On the Brighton Road / Richard Middleton -- Last house in C -- Street / Dinah M. Mulock -- Furnished room / O. Henry -- Hamlet's ghost / William Shakespeare -- Caterpillars / E.F. Benson -- Black mate / Joseph Conrad -- Tough tussle / Ambrose Bierce -- Napoleon and the spectre / Charlotte Bronte -- John Jago's ghost / Wilkie Collins -- Terror / Guy de Maupassant -- Not to be taken at bed-time / Rosa Mulholland -- Haunted house / Charles Dickens -- Bold Dragoon; or, The adventure of my grandfather / Washington Irving -- Ghost story / Mark Twain -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Brown hand / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Affair at Grover Station / Willa Cather.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-7958
- ISBN
- 9781616083649 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1616083646 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011016980
- OCLC
- 711051880
- Title
- The best ghost stories ever told / edited and introduced by Stephen Brennan.
- Imprint
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2011.
- Added Author
- Brennan, Stephen Vincent.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-7958