• Publication: The Best Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 580605
• Editor: uncredited
• Date: 2014-07-00
• Catalog ID: 123000250706
• Publisher: Liongate Press
• Price:
  $1.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Format:
  ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • All publishing data from the Kobo Books website.
  • Anonymously compiled but usually attributed to Joseph Lewis French (The Supernatural Index).
  • "Some Real American Ghosts" is comprised of a number of short essays mostly from newspaper accounts.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Fascination of the Ghost Story • (1919) • essay by Arthur B. Reeve
• 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)
• Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book • (1919) • short story by M. R. James (variant of Canon Alberic's Scrapbook 1895) [as by Montague Rhodes James]
• 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)
• The Silent Woman • (1890) • novelette by Leopold Kompert (trans. of Die Schweigerin 1860)
• Banshees • (1919) • short fiction by uncredited
• The Man Who Went Too Far • (1904) • novelette by E. F. Benson
• The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw • (1885) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rival Ghosts • (1884) • novelette by Brander Matthews
• The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Interval • (1919) • short story by Vincent O'Sullivan
• "Dey Ain't No Ghosts" • (1913) • short story by Ellis Parker Butler
• Some Real American Ghosts • (1919) • essay by various