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• The Haunted Churchyard; or, Old King Brady, the Detective, and the Mystery of the Iron Vault (originally published 1890; Dime Novel Club reprint, 1945), by New York Detective (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Topper Takes a Trip (1932), by Thorne Smith (PDF in Germany; NO US ACCESS)
• The Shadowy Third, and Other Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Ellen Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncanny Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by May Sinclair, illust. by Jean de Boschère (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masterpieces of Mystery (4 volumes; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), ed. by Joseph Lewis French
  • Ghost Stories: Gutenberg text and page images
  • Detective Stories: Gutenberg text and page images
  • Mystic-Humorous Stories: Gutenberg text and page images
  • Riddle Stories: Gutenberg text
• Famous Modern Ghost Stories (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), 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
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Ghost in the Tower: An Episode in Jacobia (1921), by Earl H. Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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 R. 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 and LibriVox audio
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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 (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), ed. by Joseph Lewis French
  • Gutenberg text
  • 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 Wayback Machine)
• 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)
• Dealings With The Dead: Narratives From "La Légende de la Mort En Basse Bretagne" (London: G. Redway, 1898), by Anatole Le Braz, trans. by Mrs. A. E. Whitehead, contrib. by Arthur Lillie and Émile Souvestre
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)
• 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
• Haunted Places in England (London: Sands and Co., 1919), by Elliott O'Donnell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• Strange Stories of Coincidence and Ghostly Adventure (London: G. Redway, ca. 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the Dead: Principally Translated From the French (London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813), ed. by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
• Told After Supper (London: Leadenhall Press; et al., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Uncanny Stories (London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d.), by May Sinclair, illust. by Jean de Boschère
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Uncanny Tales (London: T. F. Unwin, 1911), by F. Marion Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wandering Ghosts (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by F. Marion Crawford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Weird Stories, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (multiple formats with commentary at Mystery and Imagination)
• When Ghost Meets Ghost (c1914), by William De Morgan (Gutenberg text)
• The Witching Time: Tales for the Year's End (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887), ed. by Henry Norman, contrib. by Austin Dobson, F. Marion Crawford, Laurence Alma-Tadema, W. E. Norris, Von Degen, Edmund Gosse, Vernon Lee, William Archer, A. Mary F. Robinson, and L. F. Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topper (c1926), by Thorne Smith (PDF at gasl.org)
• Haunted Houses of London (London: E. Nash, 1909), by Elliott O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legends of Terror! And Tales of the Wonderful and the Wild (London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826) (page images at Google)
• More Haunted Houses of London (London: E. Nash Co., c1920), by Elliott O'Donnell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Spring Song (London: Edward Arnold, 1916), by Forrest Reid (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tales of Terror, or the Mysteries of Magic: A Selection of Wonderful and Supernatural Stories, Translated from the Chinese, Turkish, and German (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Gaylord, 1833), ed. by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghost Beyond the Gate (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1943), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas: or, Fun and Frolic in the Summer Camp (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1913), by Janet Aldridge (Gutenberg text)
• Legends of terror! : and tales of the wonderful and the wild : original and select, in prose and verse ... (London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper [etc., etc.], 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the fairies and of the ghost world : collected from oral tradition in south-west Munster / ([London] : David Nutt in the Strand, 1895), by Jeremiah Curtin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silent, white and beautiful : and other stories / (New York : Boni and Liveright, c1920), by Tod Robbins and Boni & Liveright. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of terror; or, The mysteries of magic: a selection of wonderful and supernatural stories, (Philadelphia, J. Harding, 1848), by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous occult tales. (New York, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1899), ed. by Frederick B. De Berard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of terror, or, The mysteries of magic : a selection of wonderful and supernatural stories ; translated from the Chinese, Turkish, and German / (Boston : Printed and Published by Charles Gaylord, 1835, 1833), by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stoneground ghost tales, compiled from the recollections of Roland Batchel, vicar of the parish. (Cambridge [Eng.] W. Heffer, 1912), by Edmund Gill Swain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the fairies and of the ghost world, collected from the oral tradition in South-west Munster. ([London] : D. Nutt, 1895), by Jeremiah Curtin (page images at HathiTrust)
• More ghost stories of an antiquary / (London : E. Arnold, 1911), by M. R. James (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Weird stories / (London : J. Hogg, [1882]), by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wunderbuch / (Hildesheim ; New York : G. Olms, 2006), by August Apel, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué, and Friedrich August Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das lustige Gespensterbuch / (München : G. Müller, 1915), by Kurt Szafranski and Felix Schloemp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• For the blood is the life : and other stories / (Clarkston, GA : White Wolf Publishing, [1997?], c1911), by F. Marion Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great ghost stories, selected by Joseph Lewis French; (New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918), by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust)
• A mainsail haul, (London, E. Mathews, 1905), by John Masefield and Jack B. Yeats (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masterpieces of mystery (Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1922), by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Border ghost stories / (London : E. Macdonald, 1919), by Howard Pease (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weird tid-bits ... (New York, White & Allen, [1888]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghosts and legends of South Somerset / (London : Somerset Folk Press, 1922), by George Frederick Munford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Gespensterbuch / (München : G. Müller, 1913), by Felix Schloemp, Paul Scheurich, and Gustav Meyrink (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jenseitsrätsel, Geschichten aus dem Ubersinnlichen (München, G. Müller, 1918), ed. by Friedrich Feerhow, illust. by Alfred Kubin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masterpieces of mystery ... (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday,Page & company, 1925), ed. by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• True Irish ghost stories, (Dublin : Hodges, Figgis & Co., ltd.; [etc., etc.], 1914), by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La légende de la mort chez les Bretons armoricains, (Paris, H. Champion, 1902), by Anatole Le Braz and Georges Dottin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Lebendigen und die Toten : in Volksglauben, Religion und Sage / (Leipzig : G. J. Göschen, 1898), by Rudolf Kleinpaul (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The best ghost stories; (New York, Boni and Liveright, inc., [1919]), by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous ghost-stories by English authors. (London, Gowans & Gray, 1912), by Adam L. Gowans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spuk-geschichten; der spuk von Resau u.a. (Berlin, selbstverlag des verfassers, [1889?]), by H. Puls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous psychic and ghost stories, (New York, Blue Ribbon Books, [1938]), by J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gespensterbuch. (Leipzig, G.J. Göschen, 1813), by August Apel and Friedrich August Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The haunters & the haunted; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural, (London, D. O'Connor, 1921), ed. by Ernest Rhys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales of the supernatural : a selected list of recordings made in the United States and placed in the archive of folk culture / (Washington, D.C. : Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, [1995]), by Angie C. Delcambre and Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wunderbuch. (Stuttgart, A.F. Macklot, 1816-18), by August Apel, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué, and Friedrich August Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The best ghost stories: (New York, The modern library, [192-?]), by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evening tales for the winter; being a selection of wonderful & supernatural stories, tr. from the Chinese, Turkish and German. (New York, R. Marsh, 1856), by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crónicas de aparecidos; Santa Fe supersticiosa, crédual y legendaria. (Bogotá, Ediciones Colombia, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• True Irish ghost stories, (Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., ltd.; [etc., etc.], 1926), by St. John D. Seymour and Harry Neligan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Right is might and other sketches / (New York : Sheldon, Blakeman, 1856), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Meadow-Brook girls under canvas, or, Fun and frolic in the summer camp / (Philadelphia : Henry Altemus, c1913), by Janet Aldridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masterpieces of mystery ... (Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920), by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Gespenstergeschichten, ihrer Technik und ihrer Literatur. (Leipzig : Schmidt & Spring, 1903), by Benno Diederich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La légende de la mort ehezles Bretons armorieains, (Paris, H. Champion, 1922), by Anatole Le Braz, Léon Marillier, and Georges Dottin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern ghosts, (New York, Harper & brothers, 1890), by Charles Flint McClumpha, George William Curtis, Leopold Kompert, Giovanni Magherini-Graziani, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Alexander Lange Kielland, M. von Borch, and Guy de Maupassant, trans. by Mary A. Craig, Jonathan Sturges, and Rollo Ogden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gespenstergeschichten aus Bern; (Bern, Union-verlag, 1919), by Hedwig Correvon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous ghost stories /, by Charles Container of (work) Dickens, Rudyard Container of (work) Kipling, Edgar Allan Container of (work) Poe, Washington Container of (work) Irving, Nathaniel Container of (work) Hawthorne, Fitz James Container of (work) O'Brien, Frederick Container of (work) Marryat, Edward Bulwer Lytton Container of (work) Lytton, Mary Heywood Container of (work) Gaskell, Walter Container of (work) Scott, and Daniel Container of (work) Defoe, ed. by J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ghost story omnibus ; complete stories /, ed. by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of ghosts / (London : Methuen, 1904), by S. Baring-Gould and David Murray Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Christmas carol in prose : being a ghost story for Christmas / (London : Dent ; New York : Dutton, [1905]), by Charles Dickens and C. E. Brock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The haunted stump; or, The story of the amputated hands. (Chillocothe, O., Pub. privately by D.K. Webb, 1953), by David K. Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The best psychic stories, (New York, Boni & Liveright, [c1920]), by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales for Christmas Eve, by Rhoda Broughton (Gutenberg ebook)
• A haunted life, by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The dead tryst, by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The skeleton scout; or, The border block, by Albert W. Aiken (Gutenberg ebook)
• The phantom tracker; or, The prisoner of the hill cave, by Frederick H. Dewey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Glad ghosts, by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg ebook)
• Over the Wire, by Eugene Jones (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ghost in the Red Shirt, by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jean Craig Grows Up, by Kay Lyttleton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kauhujen talo (in Finnish), by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Strange Visitation, by Marie Corelli (Gutenberg ebook)
• Asleep in Armageddon, by Ray Bradbury (Gutenberg ebook)
• Death and Taxes, by H. A. Hartzell, illust. by Dyas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile (in Italian), by Oscar Wilde, trans. by Giuseppe Vannicola, illust. by G. Mazzoni (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Den, by E. M. Waterworth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Shadowy Third, and Other Stories, by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, illust. by Elenore Plaisted Abbott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Lady of the Pillar, by Eça de Queirós, trans. by Edgar Prestage (Gutenberg ebook)
• St. Andrews Ghost Stories: Fourth Edition, by William Thomas Linskill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Twilight, by Julia Frankau (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Puzzle in the Pond: A Judy Bolton Mystery, by Margaret Sutton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mercer Boys in the Ghost Patrol, by Capwell Wyckoff (Gutenberg ebook)
• Twenty-Five Ghost Stories, ed. by W. Bob Holland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories of Enchantment, by Jane Pentzer Myers, illust. by Harriet Roosevelt Richards (Gutenberg ebook)
• Oakdale Boys in Camp, by Morgan Scott, illust. by Martin Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Copper Coleson's Ghost, by Edward P. Hendrick, illust. by Harold James Cue (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mystery Hunters at the Haunted Lodge, by Capwell Wyckoff (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ghost of Mystery Airport, by Van Powell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Phantom Yacht, by Carol Norton, illust. by D. Curley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Galloping Ghost: A Mystery Story for Boys, by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die erste Stunde nach dem Tode: Eine Gespenstergeschichte (in German), by Max Brod (Gutenberg ebook)
• Severins Gang in die Finsternis: Ein Prager Gespensterroman (in German), by Paul Leppin, illust. by Richard Teschner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Great Ghost Stories, ed. by Joseph Lewis French (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tom Ossington's Ghost, by Richard Marsh, illust. by Harold Piffard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wandering Ghosts, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Haunted Mine, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The ghosts of their ancestors, by Weymer Jay Mills, illust. by John Rae (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gateless Barrier, by Lucas Malet (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lost Door, by Dorothy Quick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cold Ghost, by Chester S. Geier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pledged to the Dead, by Seabury Quinn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh, by H. Sivia (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Christmas Carol: The original manuscript, by Charles Dickens, illust. by John Leech (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Return of Peter Grimm: Novelised From the Play, by David Belasco, illust. by John Rae (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gray Nun, by Nataly von Eschstruth, trans. by Lionel Strachey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Roll-Call Of The Reef, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Real Ghost Stories, by W. T. Stead, ed. by Estelle W. Stead (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain, by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (Gutenberg ebook)
• True Irish Ghost Stories, ed. by Harry Neligan and St. John D. Seymour (Gutenberg ebook)
• Right is might, and other sketches (New York: Lamport, Blakeman & Law, 1854), by Samuel G. Goodrich, Blakeman & Law Lamport, and Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry (page images at Florida)
• Melcomb Manor (London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1875), by F. Scarlett Potter, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at Florida)
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and the spectre bridegroom (London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1875), by Washington Irving, illust. by J Duthie, Walter Mason Oddie, and Richardson & Cox (page images at Florida)
• Off to California (London: W. Gardner, Darton, & Co., 1887), by James F Cobb and Hendrik Conscience, illust. by A Forestier (page images at Florida)
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1891), by Washington Irving, illust. by J Duthie, Walter Mason Oddie, and Richardson & Cox (page images at Florida)
• The New fairy book (London: William Andrews & Co., 1895), by William Andrews, William Andrews & Co, and Hull Press (page images at Florida)
• Rip Van Winkle (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1893), by Washington Irving, illust. by George Henry Boughton (page images at Florida)
• The Mystery of Hoyle's mouth, or, The adventures of two runaway boys (London: Sunday School Union, c1898), by Mary E Ropes, James Ayton Symington, and Morrison and Gibb (page images at Florida)
• Odysseus (New York, Chicago, Boston: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Homer, Mary E Burt, Zénaïde A Ragozin, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at Florida)
• Heedless Harry (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1882) (page images at Florida)
• The ghost of greythorn manor (London et al.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d.), by Robina F Hardy, illust. by Robina F Hardy (page images at Florida)
• Rip Van Winkle (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899), by Washington Irving, illust. by Frederick Simpson Coburn and Margaret Armstrong (page images at Florida)

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