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By Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, E. F. Benson, Daniel De Foe, Leopold Kompert, Elliot O'Donnell, Brander Matthews, Vincent O'Sullivan

ISBN-10: 9350121735

ISBN-13: 9789350121733

CONTENTS
1. The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
Daniel De Foe
2. Canon Alberic's Scarp-Book
M. R. James
3. The Haunted and The Haunters
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
4. The Silent Woman
Leopold Kompert
5. Banshees
Elliot O'Donnell
6. the guy Who Went Too Far
E. F. Benson
7. The Woman's Ghost Story
Algernon Blackwood
8. The Phantom Rickshaw
Rudyard Kipling
9. The Rival Ghosts
Brander Matthews
10. The Damned Thing
Ambrose Bierce
11. The Interval
Vincent O'Sullivan

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They are but ideas conveyed somehow or other (we have not yet discovered the means) from one mortal brain to another. Whether, in so doing, tables walk of their own accord, or fiendlike shapes appear in a magic circle, or bodyless hands rise and remove material objects, or a Thing of Darkness, such as presented itself to me, freeze our blood—still am I persuaded that these are but agencies conveyed, as if by electric wires, to my own brain from the brain of another. In some constitutions there is a natural chemistry, and these constitutions may produce chemic wonders—in others a natural fluid, call it electricity, and these may produce electric wonders.

I turned to look back into the room; the moon penetrated its shadow very palely and partially—but still there was light. The dark Thing, whatever it might be, was gone—except that I could yet see a dim shadow, which seemed the shadow of that shade, against the opposite wall. My eye now rested on the table, and from under the table (which was without cloth or cover—an old mahogany round table) there rose a hand, visible as far as the wrist. It was a hand, seemingly, as much of flesh and blood as my own, but the hand of an aged person—lean, wrinkled, small, too—a woman's hand.

Said the sacristan. "Oh no, thanks! it isn't a hundred yards. " The offer was pressed three or four times, and refused as often. " "Certainly, certainly," said Dennistoun, who was impatient to examine his prize by himself; and he stepped out into the passage with his book under his arm. Here he was met by the daughter; she, it appeared, was anxious to do a little business on her own account; perhaps, like Gehazi, to "take somewhat" from the foreigner whom her father had spared. " Well, really, Dennistoun hadn't much use for these things.

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Classic Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, E. F. Benson, Daniel De Foe, Leopold Kompert, Elliot O'Donnell, Brander Matthews, Vincent O'Sullivan


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