TY - BOOK AU - Bowers, Bill, TI - Ghost stories: 36 spine-chilling tales of terror and the supernatural SN - 9781493049165 AV - PN6071.G45 G46 2020 U1 - 808.83/8733 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Guilford, Connecticut : PB - Lyons Press, KW - Ghosts KW - Fiction KW - Short stories KW - fast KW - Horror tales N1 - The crime of Micah Rood; Elia W. Peattie --; The devil and Tom Walker; Washington Irving --; An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; Ambrose Bierce --; The snow-image: a childish miracle; Nathaniel Hawthorne --; A ghost of the Sierras; Bret Harte --; The lady's maid's bell; Edith Wharton --; A ghost story; Mark Twain --; The night call; Henry van Dyke --; Tom Toothacre's ghost story; Harriet Beecher Stowe --; A strange story from the coast; Rebecca Harding Davis --; The woman at Seven Brothers; Wilbur Daniel Steele --; The furnished room; O. Henry --; The cross-roads; Amy Lowell --; Jean-ah Poquelin; George Washington Cable --; Mistress Marian's light; Gertrude Morton --; Consequences; Willa Cather --; The tell-tale heart; Edgar Allan Poe --; The wind in the rose-bush; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman --; The ghost of fear; H. G. Wells --; Teig O'Kane and the corpse; [Traditional] --; The screaming skull; F. Marion Crawford --; Canon Alberic's scrap-book; M. R. James --; A true story; Benjamin Disraeli --; The phantom 'rickshaw; Rudyard Kipling --; The lagoon; Joseph Conrad --; On the water; Guy de Maupassant --; The erl-king; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --; The body-snatcher; Robert Louis Stevenson --; The phantom coach; Amelia B. Edwards --; Ligeia; Edgar Allan Poe --; The secret of Macarger's Gulch; Ambrose Bierce --; The old nurse's story; Elizabeth Gaskell --; August heat; W. F. Harvey --; How he left the hotel; Louisa Baldwin --; The man who went too far; E. F. Benson --; The toll-house; W. W. Jacobs N2 - "Ghost Stories is a ghoulish collection of true classics, both legendary and long-forgotten, with frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Willa Cather, and many others. This ghostly collection delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales of terror we love to read - late at night, with the lights off"-- ER -