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Cover of The World's Greatest Ghost Stories

The World's Greatest Ghost Stories

Richard Dalby

First published 2004
Publisher Barnes & Noble Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art e-Digital
Pages xi+528
Price $7.95
ISBN 0760754659

  • This is an edited version of Richard Dalby's The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories and is missing the last ten stories from that anthology.
  • This anthology even has the edited contents of The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories listed and printed in the same order.
  • An instant remainder to be sold in the Barnes & Noble bookstores.
  • There is an uncredited and untitled two stanza poem that opens the book just before the table of contents.
  • The title of "Is There Anybody There?" and "I'm Sure It Was No. 31" are listed as Is There Anybody There? and I'm Sure It Was No. 31 on the contents page but the titles are corrected on these story's title pages.
  • Danganbrack Tower photo (front cover) is copyrighted by Simon Marsden, and Gravestones (back cover) are copyrighted by Melissa Scannell.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Unsettled Dust Robert Aickman Novelette
40 How He Left the Hotel Louisa Baldwin Short Story
45 Whessoe Nugent Barker Short Story
55 The Shuttered Room E. F. Benson Short Story
68 An Inhabitant of Carcosa Ambrose Bierce Short Story
72 "Is There Anybody There?" Charles Birkin Short Story
88 The Whisperers Algernon Blackwood Short Story
94 Curfew L. M. Boston Short Story
103 "I'm Sure It Was No. 31" A. M. Burrage Short Story
108 The Guide Ramsey Campbell Short Story
120 The Limping Ghost R. Chetwynd-Hayes Short Story
136 Mrs. Zant and the Ghost Wilkie Collins Novelette
169 The House by the Tarn Basil Copper Short Story
182 In Kropfsberg Keep Ralph A. Cram Short Story
191 The Ghost in All the Rooms Daniel Defoe Short Story
200 The Bagman's Uncle Charles Dickens Short Story
217 The Bully of Brocas Court Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
229 In the Confessional Amelia B. Edwards Short Story
244 The Tune in Dan's Café Shamus Frazer Short Story
254 Beyond the Bourne John S. Glasby Short Story
267 The Valley of Lost Children William Hope Hodgson Short Story
278 The Sand-Walker Fergus Hume Short Story
293 The Real Right Thing Henry James Short Story
306 The Haunted Dolls' House M. R. James Short Story
317 The Wall-Painting Roger Johnson Short Story
331 "They" Rudyard Kipling Novelette
352 The Last Laugh D. H. Lawrence Short Story
369 Robin's Rath Margery Lawrence Novelette
387 The Dream J. Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
399 The Sundial R. H. Malden Short Story
409 The Fifteenth Man Richard Marsh Short Story
420 Brenner's Boy John Metcalfe Short Story
436 Uncle Abraham's Romance Edith Nesbit Short Story
440 What Was It? Fitz-James O'Brien Short Story
452 The Next Room Vincent O'Sullivan Short Story
461 The Footstep of the Aventine Roger Pater Short Story
472 William Wilson Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
491 Courage Forrest Reid Short Story
498 The Last of Squire Ennismore Mrs. J. H. Riddell Short Story
505 The Garside Fell Disaster L. T. C. Rolt Short Story
513 The Tears of Saint Agathé David G. Rowlands Short Story
524 The Soul of Laploshka Saki Short Story
vii untitled uncredited Poem
xi Preface (The World's Greatest Ghost Stories) Richard Dalby Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The World's Greatest Ghost Stories Cover 2004 Magpie Books Trade Paperback Anthology e-Digital xi+528
The World's Greatest Ghost Stories 2005 Barnes & Noble Books Hardcover Anthology xi+528