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The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The opening places us in a cramped Victorian drawing‑room where a group of acquaintances huddle around a…

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

This work is Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,” a Victorian…

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

The collection opens with a richly detailed, first‑person recounting of a storm‑laden night in a grand…

Humorous Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough

Dorothy Scarborough’s Humorous Ghost Stories is a scholarly yet playful survey of how the specter has evolved…

Border Ghost Stories

Howard Pease

Howard Pease’s Border Ghost Stories is a collection that gathers together a series of eerie anecdotes and…

Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories

The volume gathers a selection of short, mystic‑humorous tales that hover between the rational and the…