This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans. Includes: The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce, The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood, The Consequences by Willa Cather, How It Happened by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Ghost by Guy De Maupassant, The Shell of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar, Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe, The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens, The Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram Stoker, The Fullness of Life by Edith Wharton, an Old Woman's Tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Playing with Fire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Narrative of the Ghost of the Hand by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe; My Platonic Sweetheart by Mark Twain; and The Bold Dragoon (or The Adventure of My Grandfather) by Washington Irving.
