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The Best Ghost Stories [HARDCOVER]

The Best Ghost Stories [HARDCOVER]

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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


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