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E.F. Benson [and eighteen others].
451 pages
illustrations.
Contents: The signalman / by Charles Dickens -- At Crighton Abbey / by Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- The triumph of night / by Edith Wharton -- In the dark / by Edith Nesbit -- A warning to the curious / by M.R. James -- The face / by E.F. Benson -- The Captain of the Polestar / by Arthur Conan Doyle -- The furnished room / by O. Henry -- The friends of the friends / by Henry James -- The red room / by H.G. Wells -- Nightmare-touch / by Lafcadio Hearn -- The ghost / by Catherine Wells -- Thurnley Abbey / by Perceval Landon -- The upper berth / by Francis Marion Crawford -- The authentic narrative of the ghost of a hand / by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- A pair of hands / by Arthur Quiller-Couch -- The open door / by Margaret Oliphant -- The nurse's tale / by Elizabeth Gaskell -- They / by Rudyard Kipling.
Summary: Do you believe in ghosts? Not monsters, not floating objects or unexplained coincidences, but an actual presence - a flicker in the corner of the eye, a shadow in a darkened hallway, a hand pressed against the window, or a figure at the end of the bed. Sometimes they are a malevolent warning, or they come seeking revenge, or as a horrible reminder of past misdeeds. But ghosts can visit on the brightest summer's day, or on a lonely stretch of beach, making themselves felt just when you least expect it. This Vintage Classics selection of haunting tales by some of the masters of nineteenth-century literature. Includes spine-chilling stories by Charles Dickens, M.R. James, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and E. Nesbit.
Vintage classics.