A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked
by contemporary readers-including tales by celebrated authors such
as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith
Wharton-presented with insightful annotations by acclaimed horror
anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton. The ghost story has
long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's
greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by
their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this
spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans
like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside
overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan
Poe and M. R. James. Acclaimed anthologists Leslie S. Klinger (The
New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) and Lisa Morton (Ghosts: A Haunted
History) set these stories in historical context and trace the
literary significance of ghosts in fiction over almost two hundred
years-from a traditional English ballad first printed in 1724
through the Christmas-themed ghost stories of the Victorian era and
up to the science fiction-tinged tales of the early twentieth
century. In bringing these masterful tales back from the dead,
Ghost Stories will enlighten and frighten both longtime fans and
new readers of the genre. Including stories by: Ambrose Bierce,
Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Georgia Wood
Pangborn, Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edgar Allan
Poe, Sir Walter Scott, Frank Stockton, Mark Twain, and Edith
Wharton.
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