Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others

Sixteen spine-tingling tales from the dark side of our nation’s literary history include stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Mark Twain, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and other literary luminaries. The collection begins with Edgar Allan Poe’s
Ligeia,
a classic Gothic horror tale of a love stronger than death, followed by
The Gray Champion,
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fable of a supernatural hero who reappears in times of national danger. Other stories include
Grayling; or, ‘Murder Will Out’
by William Gilmore Simms;
The Real Right Thing
by Henry James;
Lady Ferry
by Sarah Orne Jewett;
My Platonic Sweetheart
by Mark Twain; Frank R. Stockton’s
The Philosophy of Relative Existences ;
The Upper Berth
by F. Marion Crawford; and
An Itinerant House
by Emma Frances Dawson. Ambrose Bierce’s mystery classic,
The Moonlit Road,
appears here, along with
The Conquering Will
by Harriet Prescott Spofford;
The Shadows on the Wall
by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Edith Wharton’s
The Eyes ;
Consequences
by Willa Cather;
Call Me From the Valley
by Manly Wade Wellman; and Parke Godwin’s
The Fire When It Comes.