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The Oxford Book of
English Ghost Stories

A marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories.
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The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. The best of those presented here still retain their original power to surprise and unsettle.
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Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Lefanu

Le Fanu is a Victorian writer who, along with Edgar A. Poe before him, invented the unity of mood and economy of means that characterizes the modern horror short story.
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Casting the Runes and
Other Ghost Stories

M.R. James
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M.R. James
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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce

24 of Bierce's best tales of the unknown.
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Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

Blackwood is acknowledged as the author who made the ghost story into a respectable literary form. This collection, selected by renowned scholar of the supernatural, E. F. Bleiler, includes 12 of his best ghost stories.
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson

This collection brings together all of E. F. Benson’s masterfully frightening literary ghost stories. Benson’s graceful style unites these tales to create a thoroughly eerie atmosphere.
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The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories

Edward Gorey’s selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It compiles stories by a number of masters of the art of making the flesh crawl including Charles Dickens, M. R. James, and Bram Stoker.
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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.

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