The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told

When “gut feelings” have been replaced by a thirst for proof and hard evidence, it’s good to know that you can still be spooked by a collection like this one. Best Ghost Stories is a creepy group of over forty tales by some of the most impressive names in the writing world. Terrifying, bone-chillingly eerie, and good fun, these haunting narratives give vivid descriptions of creepy characters and happenings that will make you hesitate before turning out the light! More than just a niche product, ghost stories hold a bewitching appeal for all kinds of writers and readers—some of the truly great authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have lent their horror stories to this collection, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, and many more. Count on our Best Stories series for entertaining tales that you won’t soon forget. Introduction Stephen Brennan; The Monkey's Paw / W.W. Jacobs; Green Tea / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling; The Mystery of Barney O'Rourke / John Kendrick Bangs; The Red-Haired Girl / Sabine Baring-Gould; The Man and The Snake / Ambrose Bierce; The Open Window / Saki (H.H. Munro); The Story of Salome / Amelia B. Edwards; The Black Cat Edgar / Allan Poe; John Charrington's Wedding / E. Nesbit; The Old Nurse's Story / Elizabeth Gaskell; The Business of Madame Jahn / Vincent O'Sullivan; The Canterville Ghost / Oscar Wilde; A Haunted Island / Algernon Blackwood; The Secret of Macarger's Gulch / Ambrose Bierce; The Romance of Certain Old Clothes / Henry James; The Lost Ghost / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Man-Size in Marble / E. Nesbit; The Queen of Spades / Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin; The Story of the Spaniards / Hammersmith E. and H. Heron; Number 13 / M.R. James; The Apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe; Round the Fire / Catherine Crowe; The Isle of Voices / R.L. Stevenson; The Plattner Story / H.G. Wells; On the Brighton Road / Richard Middleton; The Last House in C- Street / Dinah M. Mulock; The Furnished Room / O. Henry. Hamlet's Ghost / William Shakespeare; Caterpillars / E.F. Benson; The Black Mate / Joseph Conrad; A Tough Tussle / Ambrose Bierce; Napoleon and the Spectre / Charlotte Brontë; John Jago's Ghost / Wilkie Collins; The Terror / Guy de Maupassant; Not to be Taken at Bed-Time / Rosa Mulholland; The Haunted House / Charles Dickens; The Bold Dragoon; or, The Adventure of My Grandfather / Washington Irving; A Ghost Story / Mark Twain; Afterward / Edith Wharton; The Brown Hand / Arthur Conan Doyle; The Affair at Grover Station / Willa Cather