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Anthology Title:
Great Ghost Stories of the World • anthology by Alexander Laing
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- The Haunted Omnibus • (1937) • interior artwork by Lynd Ward
- vii • Foreword (The Haunted Omnibus) • (1937) • essay by Alexander Laing
- 3 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
- 11 • The Half-Pint Flask • (1927) • short story by DuBose Heyward
- 29 • The Brahman, the Thief and the Ghost • (1937) • short fiction by uncredited (trans. of The Brahman, the Thief and the Ghost unknown)
- 33 • The Treasure of Abbot Thomas • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
- 55 • The Yellow Wall Paper • (1937) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
- 75 • The King of the World • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
- 83 • Perez • (1922) • short story by W. L. George
- 99 • The Wendigo • (1910) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
- 149 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
- 157 • The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
- 189 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
- 203 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1910) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
- 229 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
- 237 • The White People • (1904) • novelette by Arthur Machen
- 277 • Concerning Phantoms • (1937) • short story by Caius Plinius Lucius (trans. of Epistulæ, VII, 27 unknown) [as by Pliny the Younger]
- 281 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 301 • The Story of Ming-Y • (1887) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
- 315 • The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
- 343 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
- 355 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair
- 379 • The Second Kalandar's Tale • (unknown) • novelette by uncredited
- 407 • Full Fathom Five • (1929) • short story by Alexander Woollcott
- 413 • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
- 425 • The Ghost Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)
- 437 • William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
- 459 • The Feather Cloak of Hawaii • (1928) • short story by Johannes C. Andersen
- 465 • The Gentleman from America • (1924) • short story by Michael Arlen