The Best Ghost Stories
| First published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Boni & Liveright |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Anthology |
| Pages | xii+217 |
- Anonymously compiled but usually attributed to Joseph Lewis French (The Supernatural Index).
- "Some Real American Ghosts" is comprised of a number of short essays mostly from newspaper accounts.
- Cover image from Project Gutenberg and may be unreliable.
| Year | Reviewer | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Everett F. Bleiler | The Guide to Supernatural Fiction |
No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | The Apparition of Mrs. Veal | Daniel Defoe | Short Story |
| 18 | Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book | Montague Rhodes James | Short Story |
| 31 | The Haunted and the Haunters | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Novelette |
| 60 | The Silent Woman | Leopold Kompert | Novelette |
| 79 | Banshees | uncredited | Short Fiction |
| 85 | The Man Who Went Too Far | E. F. Benson | Novelette |
| 108 | The Woman's Ghost Story | Algernon Blackwood | Short Story |
| 118 | The Phantom 'Rickshaw | Rudyard Kipling | Novelette |
| 141 | The Rival Ghosts | Brander Matthews | Novelette |
| 160 | The Damned Thing | Ambrose Bierce | Short Story |
| 170 | The Interval | Vincent O'Sullivan | Short Story |
| 177 | "Dey Ain't No Ghosts" | Ellis Parker Butler | Short Story |
| 188 | Some Real American Ghosts | various | Essay |
| vii | The Fascination of the Ghost Story | Arthur B. Reeve | Essay |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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| The Best Ghost Stories | 2006 | Project Gutenberg | eBook | Anthology | 17893 | |||
| The Best Ghost Stories |
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2012 | CreateSpace | Trade Paperback | Anthology | 312 | ||
| The Best Ghost Stories | 2014 | Liongate Press | eBook | Anthology | 123000250706 | |||
| The Best Ghost Stories |
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2014 | Didactic Press | eBook | Anthology | |||
| The Best Ghost Stories |
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2015 | CreateSpace | Trade Paperback | Anthology | 274 |