Famous Modern Ghost Stories: 15 Classic Short Stories Collection with Illustrations

Modern literature, especially the most recent, shows a revival of old types of ghosts, together with the innovations of the new. There are specters that take a real part in the plot complication, and those that merely cast threatening looks at the living, or at least, are content to speak a piece and depart. Some spirits are dumb, while others are highly elocutionary. In this collection attempted to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of modern ghosts, as well as to show the art of individual stories. Examples of the humorous ghosts are omitted here, as a number of them will be brought together in Humorous Ghost Stories, the companion volume to this. The ghost lover who reads these pages will think of others that he would like to see includedInclude 15 Ghost Short Stories : The willows / Algernon Blackwood ◆ The shadows on the wall / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman◆The messenger / Robert W. Chambers ◆ Lazarus / Leonid Andreyev ◆ The beast with five fingers / W.F. Harvey ◆ The mass of shadows / Anatole France ◆What was it? / Fitz James O'Brien ◆ The middle toe of the right foot / Ambrose Bierce ◆The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar◆ The woman at Seven Brothers / Wilbur Daniel Steele ◆ At the gate / Myla Jo Closser ◆ Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe◆ The haunted orchard / Richard Le Gallienne ◆ The bowmen / Arthur Machen ◆ A ghost / Guy de Maupassant. Read more