• Publication: The Best Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 337118
• Editor: uncredited
• Date: 2006-03-01
• Catalog ID: 17893
• Publisher: Project Gutenberg
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• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: "Some Real American Ghosts" is comprised of a number of short essays mostly from newspaper accounts. Page numbers embedded in text.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • The Fascination of the Ghost Story • (1919) • essay by Arthur B. Reeve
• 3 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
• 18 • Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book • (1919) • short story by M. R. James (variant of Canon Alberic's Scrapbook 1895) [as by Montague Rhodes James]
• 31 • The Haunted and the Haunters • (1919) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859)
• 60 • The Silent Woman • (1890) • novelette by Leopold Kompert (trans. of Die Schweigerin 1860)
• 79 • Banshees • (1919) • short fiction by uncredited
• 85 • The Man Who Went Too Far • (1904) • novelette by E. F. Benson
• 108 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 118 • The Phantom 'Rickshaw • (1885) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 141 • The Rival Ghosts • (1884) • novelette by Brander Matthews
• 160 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 170 • The Interval • (1919) • short story by Vincent O'Sullivan
• 177 • "Dey Ain't No Ghosts" • (1913) • short story by Ellis Parker Butler
• 188 • Some Real American Ghosts • (1919) • essay by various