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Classic Ghost Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

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164 Pages

For those who, like me, occasionally have trouble with the "Look Inside!" function, here are the stories listed in this volume:

An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street - J.S. Le Fanu
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman - Charles Dickens
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost - Wilkie Collins
Reality or Delusion? - Mrs. Henry Wood
The New Pass - Amelia B. Edwards
The Body-Snatcher - Robert Lewis Stevenson
What Was It? Fitz-James O'Brien
The Real Right Thing - Henry James
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" - M.R. James
In Kropfsberg Keep - Ralph A. Cram
The Lost Ghost - Mary E. Wilkins

I'm glad I added this to my collection, as it has a few stories I've never even heard of by familiar writers. I've been a fan of Wilkie Collins since I stumbled upon "The Woman in White" and I still remain a fan. One thing that goes through my mind when reading these short story collections is, "Man, they really don't write like this anymore."

On the binding/print: The font was good, and the spacing of the margins was good - sometimes with these volumes the print goes all the way to the binding, making it a little difficult to read without almost destroying the book. I didn't have that problem here.

This was a very excellent book & I had a hard time putting it down to do my chores. Very well worth the purchase!

If you are looking for just a simple book of classic ghost stories, thie this is a good book to buy. Cheap and small it contains works by classic authors. Not a a bad buy at all

I purchased this book to be part of my 'campfire story collection' when on Boy Scout campouts. I was looking for something that was 'scary, but not too scary', with longer and more compelling stories than many of the 100-words or less entrants that seem to fill some books (I mean, give us a little bit of a story...)

In any case, while some of them can be interesting to read on their own and for insight into what people thought was scary 100+ years ago (hint, almost nothing of it is currently scary to your average 12-13 year-old, and mostly they're just confused because of the vintage vocabulary), it's probably not the book I would reach for to take on the next campout. Perhaps (if you were a better story teller than I am) you could learn the stories and then re-tell them in your own words. Perhaps then this book would be useful for source material. Until then I would go with a different option.