- Publication: A Classic Collection of Haunting Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 251112
- Editors: Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye
- Date: 1993-10-00
- ISBN: 0-316-90565-8 [978-0-316-90565-7]
- Publisher: Little, Brown UK
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Price: £15.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
- Pages: xvi+381
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Webpages: archive.org
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Notes:
- Reprint Doubleday 1981 as 'Ghosts'. This edition omits 12 stories, two poems and all four appendices.
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External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 59940628
Anthology Title:
A Classic Collection of Haunting Ghost Stories • anthology by Marvin Kaye and Saralee Kaye (variant of Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New 1981)
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- xii • Introduction (Ghosts) • (1981) • essay by Marvin Kaye
- xvi • A Prologue of Last Words • (1981) • essay by Marvin Kaye
- 1 • Minuke • (1949) • short story by Nigel Kneale
- 12 • Legal Rites • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
- 39 • Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
- 50 • The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin • (1868) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
- 54 • A Quartet of Strange Things • (1981) • short fiction by Bernhardt J. Hurwood
- 62 • The Lady of Finnigan's Hearth • (1977) • novelette by Parke Godwin
- 93 • The Phantom Hag • (1904) • short story by uncredited [as by Guy de Maupassant]
- 96 • The Ghost of the Capuchins • (1981) • short story by Eugène Montfort (trans. of Le revenant des Cappuccinis 1919)
- 104 • Who Rides with Santa Anna? • (1959) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
- 107 • Jane • (1981) • short fiction by Barbara Gallow
- 118 • The Tale of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1981) • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Adventure of the German Student 1824)
- 123 • Doorslammer • (1963) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
- 128 • The Monk of Horror or The Conclave of Corpses • (1981) • short story by Joseph Snowe (variant of The Conclave of Corses 1839) [as by Anonymous]
- 132 • The Parlor-Car Ghost • (1981) • short fiction by A Lady (1849-1926) [as by Anonymous]
- 136 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
- 145 • A Gathering of Ghosts • [Ebenezum] • (1981) • novelette by Craig Shaw Gardner
- 160 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
- 168 • The Phantom Woman • (1904) • short fiction by Anonymous
- 174 • The Spectre Bride • (1904) • short story by Elia W. Peattie (variant of On the Northern Ice 1898) [as by uncredited]
- 177 • The Philosophy of Relative Existences • (1892) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
- 183 • 21 Main Street No. • (1981) • short story by Z. Z. Jeromm
- 186 • Four Ghosts in Hamlet • (1965) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
- 217 • The Ghost of Sailboat Fred • (1981) • poem by Saralee Kaye [as by Saralee Terry]
- 219 • The Fisherman's Story • (1981) • short story by Anatole Le Braz (trans. of L'aventure du pilote 1889) [as by Faith Lancereau and Anatole Le Braz]
- 227 • The Old Mansion • (1904) • short story by A Sportsman
- 231 • The Haunting of Y-12 • (1981) • short story by Al Sarrantonio
- 238 • Untitled Ghost Story (Prologue to "Automata") • (1981) • short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Eine Spukgeschichte 1819)
- 246 • Staley Fleming's Hallucination • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
- 249 • The Dead Woman's Photograph • (1904) • short story by Elia W. Peattie (variant of Story of an Obstinate Corpse 1898) [as by Anonymous]
- 253 • The Castle of the King • (1881) • short story by Bram Stoker
- 267 • Blind Man's Bluff • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield (variant of Blind Man's Buff) [as by H. R. Wakefield]
- 271 • Father Stein's Tale • (1907) • short story by R. H. Benson [as by Robert Hugh Benson]
- 276 • Money Talks • (1981) • short story by Dick Baldwin
- 281 • The Ghost of the Count • (1904) • short story by A Spinster (I)
- 288 • The Body Snatcher • (1884) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 305 • "The Penhale Broadcast" • (1947) • short story by Jack Snow
- 314 • Phantom Regiment • (1981) • novelette by James Grant (variant of The Phantom Regiment 1847)
- 341 • The Tale of the Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Story of the Bagman's Uncle)
- 357 • The North Mail • (1865) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards (variant of The Phantom Coach 1864)
- 369 • How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery • (1911) • short story by E. F. Benson