The Best Ghost Stories

Condition: Adventurer’s Companion

Size: Large Hardcover

Book Blurb

In the selection of these tales, the widest possible interpretation has been given to the term "ghost story". It would have been disastrous if a magnificent vampire story like Carmilla, or tales dealing with ghouls (Pickman's model), a werewolf (Gabriel-Ernest) and Black Magic (Casting the runes), had been excluded for the sake of adhering to a category which is at best imprecise. Any supernatural element in a story made it eligible for inclusion - those finally selected are the best.

Contents:

- Introduction (1977) by Charles Fowkes

- The House and the Brain (1859) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

- The Masque of the Red Death (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe

- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe

- Ligeia (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe

- Carmilla (1872) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

- Was It a Dream? (1887, La morte) by Guy de Maupassant

- The Horla (1887, Le Horla) by Guy de Maupassant

- Count Magnus (1904) by M.R. James

- An Episode of Cathedral History (1914) by M.R. James

- The Diary of Mr. Poynter (1919) by M.R. James

- Casting the Runes (1911) by M.R. James

- The Furnished Room (1904) by O. Henry

- The Monkey's Paw (1902) by W. W. Jacobs

- The Novel of the White Powder (1895) by Arthur Machen

- The Great God Pan (1894) by Arthur Machen

- The Novel of the Black Seal (1895) by Arthur Machen

- How Love Came to Professor Guildea (1897) by Robert Hichens

- Lukundoo (1907) by Edward Lucas White

- The Man Who Went Too Far (1904) by E.F. Benson

- Negotium Perambulans (1922) by E.F. Benson

- The Willows (1907) by Algernon Blackwood

- The Glamour of the Snow (1911) by Algernon Blackwood

- The Decoy (1921) by Algernon Blackwood

- Ancient Sorceries (1908) by Algernon Blackwood

- Gabriel-Ernest (1909) by Saki

- The Music on the Hill (1911) by Saki

- All Hallows (1926) by Walter de la Mare

- Mr. Kempe (1925) by Walter de la Mare

- The Beckoning Fair One (1911) by Oliver Onions

- The Story of a Panic (1904) by E.M. Forster

- The Story of the Siren (1920) by E.M. Forster

- The Sailor-Boy's Tale (1942) by Karen Blixen

- Pickman's Model (1927) by H.P. Lovecraft

- The Dunwich Horror (1929) by H.P. Lovecraft

- The Music of Erich Zann (1922) by H.P. Lovecraft

- The Rats in the Walls (1924) by H.P. Lovecraft

- The Shout (1929) by Robert Graves

- Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early? (1951) by John Collier

- A Woman Seldom Found (1956) by William Sansom