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Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu

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Classic Tales of Horror

Rudyard Kipling, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, E.F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins · 240 pages

Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) King Pest Lig

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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton · 280 pages

The lady's maid's bell. -- The eyes. -- Afterward. -- Kerfol. -- The triumph of night. -- Miss Mary Pask. -- Bewitched. -- Mr. Jones. -- Pomegranate seed. -- The looking glass. -- All Souls'. --

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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Bram Stoker · 131 pages

Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable

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The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales

Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 256 pages

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

William L. Hedges · 358 pages

Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic

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The Haunted Dolls' House

M.R. James · 208 pages

Evil comes with many different faces.A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls' house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the tomb of a Swedish count will not rest quietly...M. R. James's chilling ghost stories reveal a world where the familiar becomes diaboli

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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Edgar Allan Poe · 419 pages

17 STORIES [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)

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Ghost Stories

Henry James · 448 pages

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The Winter Spirits

Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman · 464 pages

THE DAZZLING SECOND GHOST STORY COLLECTION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON, NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha PulleyElizabeth Macneal Laura Purcell Susan Stokes-Ch

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The Small Hand and Dolly

Susan Hill · 280 pages

Collects two ghost stories, including "The Small Hand," in which a bookseller is plagued by nightmares after stumbling across a derelict Edwardian house; and "Dolly," in which an orphan is haunted by a spiteful cousin's act of rage.

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The Body Snatcher

Robert Louis Stevenson · 48 pages

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The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell · 64 pages

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Haunted Castles

Ray Russell · 256 pages

"Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russel

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The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Stories

Adrian Kelly, Edgar Allan Poe · 62 pages

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The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

E.F. Benson, Richard Dalby · 624 pages

A collection of horror stories - not only ghosts - by one of the early masters of the genre. Most are set in southern England, but there are stories also set in Scotland, the Alps and Egypt.

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.

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The Alchemist

H.P. Lovecraft

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Three Ghost Stories

Charles Dickens · 62 pages

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The Woman in Black: Angel of Death

Martyn Waites · 336 pages

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Gothic Tales

Mary Shelley; Edited with an Introduction by Daniel Cook

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The Tales of Hoffman

E.T.A. Hoffmann

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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages

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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Phyllis Cerf · 1,056 pages

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