Ghost stories

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• Ghost stories, American
• Ghost stories, English
• Ghost stories, Irish

• Ghost stories -- Juvenile fiction
• Ghosts -- Fiction
• Ghosts -- Juvenile fiction

• The Best Ghost Stories (New York: Modern Library, c1919), ed. by Joseph Lewis French, contrib. by Arthur B. Reeve, Daniel Defoe, M. R. James, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Leopold Kompert, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Rudyard Kipling, Brander Matthews, Ambrose Bierce, Vincent O'Sullivan, and Ellis Parker Butler (Gutenberg text)
• The Best Psychic Stories, ed. by Joseph Lewis French (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Border Ghost Stories (London: E. Macdonald, c1919), by Howard Pease (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Boy Who Wasn't There: A Mystery, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at childrensbooksforever.com)
• The Canterville Ghost, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• The Canterville Ghost (Boston and London: John W. Luce and Co., 1906), by Oscar Wilde, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Evening Tales for the Winter: Being a Selection of Wonderful and Supernatural Stories (3 volumes in 1; New York: R. Marsh, 1856), ed. by Henry St. Clair (multiple formats at Google)
• Famous Modern Ghost Stories, ed. by Dorothy Scarborough, contrib. by Algernon Blackwood, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert W. Chambers, Leonid Andreyev, William Fryer Harvey, Anatole France, Fitz James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Myla Jo Closser, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Machen, and Guy de Maupassant (Gutenberg text)
• Ghost Beyond the Gate (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1943), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Ghost Stories (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1918), ed. by Joseph Lewis French
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Humorous Ghost Stories (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), ed. by Dorothy Scarborough, contrib. by Oscar Wilde, Gelett Burgess, Ellis Parker Butler, Frank Richard Stockton, Théophile Gautier, Brander Matthews, John Kendrick Bangs, Richard Middleton, Wallace Irwin, Nelson Lloyd, Eden Phillpotts, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Will Adams, Washington Irving, Thomas Ingoldsby, Burges Johnson, Elsie Brown, and Rose Cecil O'Neill
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Legends of Terror! And Tales of the Wonderful and the Wild (London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826) (page images at Google)
• Modern Ghosts (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1890), contrib. by George William Curtis, Guy de Maupassant, Alexander Lange Kielland, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Giovanni Magherini-Graziani, and Leopold Kompert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sinister House (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Leland Hall, illust. by Haydon Jones (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Stoneground Ghost Tales (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Son, 1912), by E. G. Swain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster, by Jeremiah Curtin (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Topper (1926), by Thorne Smith (PDF in Germany; NO US ACCESS)
• Topper Takes a Trip (1932), by Thorne Smith (PDF in Germany; NO US ACCESS)
• Wandering Ghosts (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by F. Marion Crawford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Weird Stories, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (HTML at munseys.com)

• Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories (Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895), by Ralph Adams Cram (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others, by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Men, Women, and Ghosts (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Modern Ghost Stories: A Medley of Drama, Impressions and Spectral Illusions (New York: Fowler and Wells Co.; London: L. N. Fowler and Co., c1906), by Emma May Buckingham
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales, by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• The Bishop of Hell, and Other Stories (1949 compilation), by Marjorie Bowen (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• A Book of Ghosts (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1904), by S. Baring-Gould, illust. by D. Murray Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Four Ghost Stories (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1888), by Mrs. Molesworth (Gutenberg text)
• Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies (London: R. Bentley, 1858), by J. Hain Friswell, contrib. by Alphonse Karr and Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol' (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (8-story collection), by M. R. James (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas (London: T. C. Newby, 1859), by Catherine Crowe (Gutenberg text)
• Grim Tales (London: A. D. Innes and Co., 1893), by E. Nesbit (Gutenberg text)
• J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales (Gutenberg compilation of short stories and novellas), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • Volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • Volume 3: Gutenberg text
  • Volume 4: Gutenberg text
  • Volume 5: Gutenberg text
• Madam Crowl's Ghost, and Other Tales of Mystery, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, ed. by M. R. James (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by M. R. James
  • HTML with additional material at the Literary Gothic
  • Gutenberg text and audio
• The Perfume of Egypt, and Other Weird Stories, by C. W. Leadbeater (multiple formats at manybooks.net)
• Six Ghost Stories, by Thomas Graham Jackson (HTML at munseys.com)
• A Thin Ghost, and Others (New York: Longmans, Green and Co.; London: E. Arnold, 1920), by M. R. James (Gutenberg text and HTML)
• Widdershins (1911 compilation), by Oliver Onions (Gutenberg text)

• True Irish Ghost Stories (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis and Co., c1914), by Harry Neligan, ed. by St. John D. Seymour (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Horror Story, and Other Horror Stories (c2008), by Robert Boyczuk (PDF with commentary at chizine.com)
• Legends of Terror! And Tales of the Wonderful and the Wild (London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826) (page images at Google)
• September and Other Stories (c2007), by Julie Ann Dawson (HTML at publicbookshelf.com)

• Supernatural Horror in Literature, by H. P. Lovecraft (HTML at Gaslight)

• Balefires (included on a Baen CD image), by David Drake
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 491 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 490 MB
• The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Tales (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Edgar Allan Poe (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840), by Edgar Allan Poe
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia

• No Further Messages (North Webster, IN: Delirium Books, 2007), by Brett Alexander Savory (PDF at chizine.com)

• The Bishop of Hell, and Other Stories (1949 compilation), by Marjorie Bowen (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Carnacki, the Ghost Finder (6-story collection), by William Hope Hodgson (Gutenberg text)
• Dracula's Guest (9-story collection), by Bram Stoker
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML with commentary at bramstoker.org
• The House of Souls (4-story US compilation), by Arthur Machen (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Men of the Deep Waters, by William Hope Hodgson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Round the Fire Stories (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1908), by Arthur Conan Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in Love and in Terror (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, c1913), by Marie Belloc Lowndes (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Love and in Terror (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Marie Belloc Lowndes (HTML at Emory)
• The Watcher, and Other Weird Stories (London: Downey and Co., ca. 1894), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, illust. by Brinsley Le Fanu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

More items available under broader and related terms at left.