The Best Ghost Stories

Over twenty terrifying tales of the supernatural – eerie visitations, revenge from beyond the grave, vampire love and many other macabre manifestations from masters of the genre.

Contents:

• Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The House and the Brain
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of Red Death
  
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  
• Edgar Allan Poe: Ligeia
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
• Guy de Maupassant: Was It a Dream?
  
• Guy de Maupassant: The Horla
  
• M. R. James: Count Magnus
  
• M. R. James: An Episode of Cathedral History
  
• M. R. James: Casting the Runes
  
• O. Henry: The Furnished Room
  
• W. W. Jacobs: The Monkey's Paw
  
• Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan
• Edward Lucas White: Lukundoo
• E. F. Benson: The Man Who Went Too Far
  
• E. F. Benson: Negotium Perambulans
  
• Saki: Gabriel-Ernest
  
• Saki: The Music on the Hill
  
• E. M. Forster: The Story of a Panic
• Karen Blixen: The Sailor-Boy's Tale
• H. P. Lovecraft: Pickman's Model
  
• H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror
  
• H. P. Lovecraft: The Rats in the Wall
• Acknowledgements