'The evil spirit, who enthralled my senses in the shape of that portrait, may have been just as near me, just as energetic, just as malignant, though I saw him not.'
This handsome hardback anthology brings together 60 of the greatest ghost stories ever written, featuring silent spectres, petrifying phantoms and all manner of ghastly ghosts. Whether the apparitions are discovered by intrepid adventurers, solemn priests or mild-mannered academics, the haunted must reconsider their most basic assumptions and work out how best to respond to these supernatural assaults.
Tales include:
• A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant
• The Red Room by H. G. Wells
• The Signalman by Charles Dickens
• The Room in the Tower by E.F. Benson
• The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
• The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral by M.R. James
• Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Presented in a stylish jacketed hardback with gorgeous endpaper illustrations, the tales here will terrify and entertain in equal measure.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Retro Classics are beautiful hardcover collections which bring together the best short stories from across the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. With striking retro cover designs and illustrated endpapers by Tithi Luadthong, these editions make wonderful collectibles for your home library.
'The evil spirit, who enthralled my senses in the shape of that portrait, may have been just as near me, just as energetic, just as malignant, though I saw him not.'
This handsome hardback anthology brings together 60 of the greatest ghost stories ever written, featuring silent spectres, petrifying phantoms and all manner of ghastly ghosts. Whether the apparitions are discovered by intrepid adventurers, solemn priests or mild-mannered academics, the haunted must reconsider their most basic assumptions and work out how best to respond to these supernatural assaults.
Tales include:
• A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant
• The Red Room by H. G. Wells
• The Signalman by Charles Dickens
• The Room in the Tower by E.F. Benson
• The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
• The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral by M.R. James
• Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Presented in a stylish jacketed hardback with gorgeous endpaper illustrations, the tales here will terrify and entertain in equal measure.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Retro Classics are beautiful hardcover collections which bring together the best short stories from across the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. With striking retro cover designs and illustrated endpapers by Tithi Luadthong, these editions make wonderful collectibles for your home library.
Guy de Maupassant
A Ghost
Montague Rhodes James
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
O, Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad
Margaret Oliphant
The Open Door
Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
The Deserted House
Erckmann-Chatrian
The Mysterious Sketch
Théophile Gautier
Clarimonde
Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The House and the Brain
Gertrude Atherton
The Bell in the Fog
The Striding Place
John Kendrick Bangs
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
Daniel Defoe
The Apparition of Mrs Veal
Fitz James O'Brien
What was it?
Brander Matthews
The Rival Ghosts
Violet Hunt
The Prayer
Charles Dickens
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
William Fryer Harvey
The Clock
The Beast with Five Fingers
Richard Le Gallienne
The Haunted Orchard
Robert W. Chambers
The Messenger
The Bridal Pair
A Pleasant Evening
Passeur
Bithia Mary Croker
Number Ninety
The Red Bungalow
Julius Long
The Pale Man
Ambrose Bierce
The Damned Thing
Edith Wharton
Afterward
Kerfol
Edward Frederic Benson
The Room in the Tower
The Man Who Went Too Far
Saki
The Open Window
William Hope Hodgson
The Whistling Room
The Horse of the Invisible
The Searcher of the End House
Henry James
The Real Right Thing
The Jolly Corner
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
Edith Nesbit
Man-size in Marble
John Charrington's Wedding
Uncle Abraham's Romance
In the Dark
Amelia Edwards
The Phantom Coach
H. G. Wells
The Red Room
W. W. Jacobs
The Well
Jerry Bundler
Ellen Glasgow
The Shadowy Third
Ralph Adams Cram
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince
The Dead Valley
H. F. Arnold
The Night Wire
Grant Allen
Wolverden Tower
Amyas Northcote
Brickett Bottom
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Lost Ghost
Vincent O' Sullivan
The Burned House
When I Was Dead
My Enemy and Myself
Thomas Graham Jackson
The Lady of Rosemount
A stunning collection of more than 60 of the greatest ghost stories ever written.
James Stevens is a connoisseur of horror fiction and in this collection he has selected tales by M.R. James, E. F. Benson, William Hope Hodgson, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Edith Wharton among others.
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