The Big Book of Ghost Stories by Penzler, Otto -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Otto Penzler: Introduction But I’m Not Dead Yet

Conrad Aiken: Mr. Arcularis William Fryer Harvey: August Heat

I’ll Love You—Forever (Or Maybe Not)

Ellen Glasgow: The Shadowy Third Ellen Glasgow: The Past David Morrell: But at My Back I Always Hear O. Henry: The Furnished Room Paul Ernst: Death’s Warm Fireside Andrew Klavan: The Advent Reunion R. Murray Gilchrist: The Return Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Ambrose Bierce: The Moonlit Road Lafcadio Hearn: The Story of Ming-Y Lafcadio Hearn: Yuki-Onna

This Old House

Amyas Northcote: Brickett Bottom E. F. Benson: How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery G. G. Pendarves: Thing of Darkness Edward Lucas White: The House of the Nightmare Hector Bolitho: The House in Half Moon Street Dick Donovan: A Night of Horror Vincent O’Sullivan: The Burned House

Kids Will Be Kids

Rosemary Timperley: Harry Michael Reaves: Make-Believe A. M. Burrage: Playmates Ramsey Campbell: Just Behind You A. E. Coppard: Adam and Eve and Pinch Me Steve Friedman: The Lost Boy of the Ozarks

There’s Something Funny Around Here

Mark Twain: A Ghost’s Story Donald E. Westlake: In at the Death Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Ghost of Dr. Harris “Ingulphus”: The Everlasting Club Isaac Asimov and James Maccreigh: Legal Rites Albert E. Cowdrey: Death Must Die Frank Stockton: The Transferred Ghost Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost

A Negative Train of Thought

August Derleth: Pacific 421 Robert Weinberg: The Midnight El

Stop—You’re Scaring Me

Frederick Cowles: Punch and Judy Henry S. Whitehead: The Fireplace H. F. Arnold: The Night Wire Fritz Leiber: Smoke Ghost Wyatt Blassingame: Song of the Dead

I Must Be Dreaming

Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman Washington Irving: The Adventure of the German Student

A Séance, You Say?

Joseph Shearing: They Found My Grave Edgar Jepson: Mrs. Morrel’s Last Séance Joyce Carol Oates: Night-Side

Classics

M. R. James: “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad” W. W. Jacobs: The Monkey’s Paw W. W. Jacobs: The Toll-House Edith Wharton: Afterward Willa Cather: Consequences Cynthia Asquith: The Follower Cynthia Asquith: The Corner Shop H. P. Lovecraft: The Terrible Old Man Erckmann-Chatrian: The Murderer’s Violin Saki: The Open Window Saki: Laura Fitz-James O’Brien: What Was It? Alexander Woollcott: Full Fathom Five H. R. Wakefield: He Cometh and He Passeth By Perceval Landon: Thurnley Abbey

The Female of the Species

Algernon Blackwood: The Woman’s Ghost Story Victor Rousseau: The Angel of the Marne Olivia Howard Dunbar: The Shell of Sense Marjorie Bowen: The Avenging of Ann Leete

Beaten to a Pulp

Greye La Spina: The Dead-Wagon Urann Thayer: A Soul with Two Bodies Arthur J. Burks: The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee Thorp Mcclusky: The Considerate Hosts Cyril Mand: The Fifth Candle August Derleth And Mark Schorer: The Return of Andrew Bentley M. L. Humphreys: The Floor Above Manly Wade Wellman: School for the Unspeakable A. V. Milyer: Mordecai’s Pipe Julius Long: He Walked by Day Dale Clark: Behind the Screen

Modern Masters

M. Rickert: Journey into the Kingdom H. R. F. Keating: Mr. Saul Chet Williamson: Coventry Carol

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