From North to South, coast-to-coast, Lyons Press Classics deliver stories rooted in their time, place, and topic. Ghost Stories is a ghoulish collection of true American classics, both long-forgotten and legendary.

With frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Willa Cather, and long forgotten yet terrifying authors, this ghostly collection of classic stories delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales we love to read - late at night, with the lights off.