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The Anthology of Ghost Stories

by Richard Dalby, Robert Aickman, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Dalby

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The unsettled dust / Robert Aickman -- How he left the hotel / Louisa Baldwin -- Whessoe / Nugent Barker -- The shuttered room / E.F. Benson -- Inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce -- Is there anybody there? / Charles Birkin -- The whisperers / Algernon Blackwood -- Curfew / L.M. Boston -- I'm sure it was no. 31 / A.M. Burrage -- The guide / Ramsey Campbell -- The limping ghost / R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- Mrs. Zant and the ghost / Wilkie Collins -- The house by the tarn / Basil Copper -- In Kropfsberg Keep / Ralph A. Cram -- The ghost in all the rooms / Daniel DeFoe -- The bagman's uncle / Charles Dickens -- The bully of Brocas Court / Arthur Conan Doyle -- In the confessional / Amelia B. Edwards -- The tune in Dan's café / Shamus Frazer -- Beyond the Bourne / John S. Glasby -- The valley of lost children / William Hope Hodgson -- The sand-walker / Fergus Hume -- The real right thing / Henry James -- The haunted dolls' house / M.R. James -- The wall-painting / Roger Johnson -- They / Rudyard Kipling -- The last laugh / D.H. Lawrence -- Robin's Rath / Margery Lawrence -- The dream / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The sundial / R.H. Malden -- The fifteenth man / Richard Marsh -- Brenner's boy

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