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The 8th Ghost Story MEGAPACK® - 25 Modern and Classic Ghost Stories - cover

The 8th Ghost Story MEGAPACK® - 25 Modern and Classic Ghost Stories

Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Wallace, Algernon Blackwood, H. G. Wells, Phyllis Ann Karr, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Talmage Powell, Wallace West, Stephen Wasylyk

Publisher: Wildside Press

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Summary

We love ghost stories here at Wildside Press—witness the fact that we have now now reached our eighth volume in this series. Very few other genres are so versatile and enduring as tales of the supernatural. Ghosts can (and have) appeared in literature for thousands of years, in all countries and continents (and times past, present, and future) throughout the world. But the Victorian era particularly seemed to embrace ghost stories, and that’s when Christmas ghost tales became not just a staple of literature, but a requirement. Seemingly all British fiction magazines (and many newspapers) had to publish at least one ghostly tale in the month of December.Proving that the ghost story tradition is strong to the present day, we have an original story from Phyllis Ann Karr (author of the Frostflower and Thorn series), plus two drawn from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (which strayed a little more into the fantastic and horrific in the 1960s that it does today), plus another modern story by Wallace West, who is best known as a science fiction writer. Good stuff.Here is the complete lineup:
 
UNSEEN—UNFEARED, by Francis Stevens
 
RUNNING WOLF, by Algernon Blackwood
 
UNCLE CHRISTIAN’S INHERITANCE, by Erckmann-Chatrian
 
MOMMY, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
 
A GHOST’S REVENGE, by Tighe Hopkins
 
THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by George MacDonald
 
THE THING IN THE UPPER ROOM, by Arthur Morrison
 
DIE, GEORGE!, by Stephen Wasylyk
 
HEINRICH, by Wallace West
 
RESURGAM, by Rina Ramsay
 
THE SPECTRE OF TAPPINGTON, by Thomas Ingoldsby
 
THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST, by H. G. Wells
 
THE SECOND MRS. RANDLEMAN, by Talmage Powell
 
THE SILVER MIRROR, by Arthur Conan Doyle
 
WHILE THE PASSENGERS SLEPT, by Edgar Wallace
 
THE WARNING LIGHT, by Phyllis Ann Karr
 
NAPOLEON AND THE SPECTRE, by Charlotte Brontë
 
THE COLD EMBRACE, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
 
THE PHIAL OF DREAD, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
 
SOME STRANGE DISTURBANCES IN AUNGIER STREET, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
 
THE OLD NURSE’S STORY by Mrs. Gaskell
 
THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS, by Amelia B. Edwards
 
THE SECRET OF THE STRADIVARIUS, by Hugh Conway
 
MR. GRAY’S STRANGE STORY, by Louisa Murray
 
HOW HE LEFT THE HOTEL, by Louisa Baldwin
 
And don't forget to check out our other volumes in the MEGAPACK® series—there are hundreds of them! Search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press MEGAPACK" to find the complete list.
Available since: 04/07/2022.
Print length: 531 pages.

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