Classic Ghost Stories

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Teig O'Kane and the corpse -- The ghost of fear / H.G. Wells -- The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford -- Canon Alberic's scrap-book / M.R. James -- A true story / Benjamin Disraeli -- The phantom 'rickshaw / Rudyard Kipling -- The lagoon / Joseph Conrad -- On the water / Guy de Maupassant -- The captain's story / Rebecca Harding Davis -- The erl-king / Goethe -- The body-snatcher/ Robert Louis Stevenson -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- The legend of Macarger's gulch / Ambrose Bierce -- The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- August heat / W.F. Harvey -- How he left the hotel / Louisa Baldwin -- The man who went too far / E.F. Benson -- The hall bedroom/ Mary E. Wilkins -- The toll-house / W.W. Jacobs.