Famous Modern Ghost Stories

CONTENTS

Introduction: The Imperishable Ghost

The Willows

By Algernon Blackwood

The Shadows on the Wall

By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

The Messenger

By Robert W. Chambers

Lazarus

By Leonid Andreyev

The Beast with Five Fingers

By W. F. Harvey

The Mass of Shadows

By Anatole France

What Was It?

By Fitz-James O'Brien

The Middle Toe of the Right Foot

By Ambrose Bierce

The Shell of Sense

By Olivia Howard Dunbar

The Woman at Seven Brothers

By Wilbur Daniel Steele

At the Gate

By Myla Jo Closser

Ligeia

By Edgar Allan Poe

The Haunted Orchard

By Richard Le Gallienne

The Bowmen

By Arthur Machen

A Ghost

By Guy de Maupassant