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Description
BEST GHOST STORIES EVER… AND EVER AND EVER (The Forking Paths Series)
Includes 59 Stories.
The Forking Paths Series is a group of anthologies, each one of which is dedicated to a specific subject. By bringing together classic texts from around the world at an affordable price, we hope to make great literature available to everyone.
This is no ordinary anthology. The editor has selected the best ghost stories from around the world, ranging from Greek and Roman times to the twentieth century, but has concentrated mainly on the two writers that stand out as the masters of the form.
Both Sheridan Le Fanu and M.R. James are widely considered the greatest ghost story writers of the 19th and the 20th century, respectively. Out of the 57 tales included in this volume, 22 belong to Le Fanu, and 20 to M.R. James. The other 15 form an anthology in itself. They trace the development of the ghost story from antiquity to our times, providing the perfect background for the study of Le Fanu and James, and the tradition they helped to refine.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Stories by J. SHERIDAN LE FANU 1814-1873
Carmilla (1872)
Schalken the Painter (1851)
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (1853)
The Ghost and the Bone Setter (1880)
The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh (1880)
The Last Heir of Castle Connor (1880)
The Drunkard’s Dream (1880)
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess (1880)
The Bridal of Carrigvarah (1880)
An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House (1862)
Laura Silver Bell (1872)
Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling (1869)
The Child That Went With The Fairies (1870)
Stories of Lough Guir (1870):
The Magician Earl
Moll Rial's Adventure
The Banshee
The Governess's Dream
The Earl's Hall
The Vision of Tom Chuff (1870)
Dickon the Devil (1872)
Madame Crowl’s Ghost (1871)
The Dead Sexton (1871)
2. Stories by M.R. JAMES 1862-1936
PART I: GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY (1904)
Canon Alberic's Scrap-book
Lost Hearts
The Mezzotint
The Ash-tree
Number 13
Count Magnus
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
PART 2: MORE GHOST STORIES (1911)
A School Story
The Rose Garden
The Tractate Middoth
Casting the Runes
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Martin's Close
Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance
PART 3: A THIN GHOST (1920)
The Residence at Whitminster
The Diary of Mr. Poynter
An Episode of Cathedral History
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
Two Doctors
3. APPENDIX: The Tradition of the Ghost Story
Lacy Collison-Morley: Ghosts in Antiquity
Pliny The Younger: Letter to Sura
Lucius Apuleius: Panthia and
The Shroud (Russian Folktale)
The Spirit of the Singing House (Eskimo Folktale)
The Dream of (Japanese Folktale)
E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Sandman
Edgard Allan Poe: Ligeia
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse's Story
Jonas Lauritz Lie: The Earth Draws
Ambrose Bierce The Moonlit Road
R.L. Stevenson: Thrawn Janet
W.W. Jacobs: The Monkey’s Paw
Bram Stoker: Dracula’s Guest
Rudyard Kipling: They
Includes 59 Stories.
The Forking Paths Series is a group of anthologies, each one of which is dedicated to a specific subject. By bringing together classic texts from around the world at an affordable price, we hope to make great literature available to everyone.
This is no ordinary anthology. The editor has selected the best ghost stories from around the world, ranging from Greek and Roman times to the twentieth century, but has concentrated mainly on the two writers that stand out as the masters of the form.
Both Sheridan Le Fanu and M.R. James are widely considered the greatest ghost story writers of the 19th and the 20th century, respectively. Out of the 57 tales included in this volume, 22 belong to Le Fanu, and 20 to M.R. James. The other 15 form an anthology in itself. They trace the development of the ghost story from antiquity to our times, providing the perfect background for the study of Le Fanu and James, and the tradition they helped to refine.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Stories by J. SHERIDAN LE FANU 1814-1873
Carmilla (1872)
Schalken the Painter (1851)
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (1853)
The Ghost and the Bone Setter (1880)
The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh (1880)
The Last Heir of Castle Connor (1880)
The Drunkard’s Dream (1880)
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess (1880)
The Bridal of Carrigvarah (1880)
An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House (1862)
Laura Silver Bell (1872)
Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling (1869)
The Child That Went With The Fairies (1870)
Stories of Lough Guir (1870):
The Magician Earl
Moll Rial's Adventure
The Banshee
The Governess's Dream
The Earl's Hall
The Vision of Tom Chuff (1870)
Dickon the Devil (1872)
Madame Crowl’s Ghost (1871)
The Dead Sexton (1871)
2. Stories by M.R. JAMES 1862-1936
PART I: GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY (1904)
Canon Alberic's Scrap-book
Lost Hearts
The Mezzotint
The Ash-tree
Number 13
Count Magnus
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
PART 2: MORE GHOST STORIES (1911)
A School Story
The Rose Garden
The Tractate Middoth
Casting the Runes
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Martin's Close
Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance
PART 3: A THIN GHOST (1920)
The Residence at Whitminster
The Diary of Mr. Poynter
An Episode of Cathedral History
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
Two Doctors
3. APPENDIX: The Tradition of the Ghost Story
Lacy Collison-Morley: Ghosts in Antiquity
Pliny The Younger: Letter to Sura
Lucius Apuleius: Panthia and
The Shroud (Russian Folktale)
The Spirit of the Singing House (Eskimo Folktale)
The Dream of (Japanese Folktale)
E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Sandman
Edgard Allan Poe: Ligeia
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse's Story
Jonas Lauritz Lie: The Earth Draws
Ambrose Bierce The Moonlit Road
R.L. Stevenson: Thrawn Janet
W.W. Jacobs: The Monkey’s Paw
Bram Stoker: Dracula’s Guest
Rudyard Kipling: They