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Title: The Best Ghost Stories

Author: Various

Release Date: March 1, 2006 [eBook #17893]

Language: English

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The Modern Library of the World's Best Books

THE BEST GHOST STORIES

Introduction by Arthur B. Reeve

The Modern Library
Publishers New York
Copyright, 1919, by
Boni & Liveright, Inc.
Manufactured in the United States of America by H. Wolff

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION--"THE FASCINATION OF THE GHOST STORY" _Arthur B. Reeve_ vii

THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL _Daniel De Foe_ 3

CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK _Montague Rhodes James_ 18

THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS _Edward Bulwer-Lytton_ 31

THE SILENT WOMAN _Leopold Kompert_ 60

BANSHEES 79

THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR _E.F. Benson_ 85

THE WOMAN'S GHOST STORY _Algernon Blackwood_ 108

THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW _Rudyard Kipling_ 118

THE RIVAL GHOSTS _Brander Matthews_ 141

THE DAMNED THING _Ambrose Bierce_ 160

THE INTERVAL _Vincent O'Sullivan_ 170

DEY AIN'T NO GHOSTS _Ellis Parker Butler_ 177

SOME REAL AMERICAN GHOSTS