Great Ghost Stories: Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce and more

by John Grafton (Editor)

Overview

Aficionados of supernatural fiction will take perverse pleasure in the hair-raising horrors recounted in these outstanding examples of the genre. Featuring a gallery of ghostly characters, forbidding landscapes, gloomy country manors, and occult occurrences, this spine-tingling collection features works by such masters of the macabre as Bram Stoker (the creator of Dracula), J. S. LeFanu, Ambrose Bierce, and M. R. James.
The ten classics included in this volume are: "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, E. G. Swain's "Bone to His Bone," "The Rose Garden" by M. R. James, Dickens's "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt," LeFanu's "Dickon the Devil," Stoker's "The Judge's Salt," "The Moonlit Road" by Ambrose Bierce, Amelia B. Edwards's "The Phantom Coach," "A Ghost Story" by Jerome K. Jerome, and E. F. Benson's "The Confession of Charles Linkworth."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486272702
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	09/30/1992
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Gothic/Horror
Edition description:	Unabridged
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

Amelia B. Edwards The Phantom Coach
Charles Dickens To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt
J. S. Lefanu Dickon the Devil
Bram Stoker The Judge's House
Jerome K. Jerome A Ghost Story
Ambrose Bierce The Moonlit Road
W. W. Jacobs The Monkey's Paw
M. R. James The Rose Garden
E. G. Swain Bone to His Bone
E. F. Benson The Confession of Charles Linkworth