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Cover of The Big Book of Ghost Stories

The Big Book of Ghost Stories

Otto Penzler

First published 2012
Series Big Book Series
Publisher Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Gregg Kulick
Pages xii+833
Price $25.00
ISBN 9780307474490

  • Publication date from Amazon as of 2012-11-09.
  • First printing per full number line.
  • Canada price C$29.95.
  • Each story is preceded by an introduction.
  • Artwork credited from signatures if present.
  • The back cover of the book incorrectly states that the book has over 1000 pages.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Mr. Arcularis Conrad Aiken Novelette
16 August Heat William Fryer Harvey Short Story
23 The Shadowy Third Ellen Glasgow Novelette
38 The Past Ellen Glasgow Novelette
52 But at My Back I Always Hear David Morrell Short Story
63 The Furnished Room O. Henry Short Story
69 Death's Warm Fireside Paul Ernst Short Story
75 The Advent Reunion Andrew Klavan Short Story
83 The Return R. Murray Gilchrist Short Story
88 The Phantom Rickshaw Rudyard Kipling Novelette
102 The Moonlit Road Ambrose Bierce Short Story
109 The Story of Ming-Y Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
118 Yuki-Onna Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
123 Brickett Bottom Amyas Northcote Short Story
130 How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery E. F. Benson Short Story
140 Thing of Darkness G. G. Pendarves Novelette
162 The House of the Nightmare Edward Lucas White Short Story
169 The House in Half Moon Street Hector Bolitho Novelette
192 A Night of Horror Dick Donovan Short Story
203 The Burned House Vincent O'Sullivan Short Story
211 Harry Rosemary Timperley Short Story
220 Make-Believe Michael Reaves Short Story
228 Playmates A. M. Burrage Novelette
243 Just Behind You Ramsey Campbell Short Story
255 Adam and Eve and Pinch Me A. E. Coppard Short Story
263 The Lost Boy of the Ozarks Steve Friedman Short Story
283 A Ghost's Story Mark Twain Short Story
288 In at the Death Donald E. Westlake Short Story
297 The Ghost of Dr. Harris Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
303 The Everlasting Club 'Ingulphus' Short Story
308 Legal Rites Isaac Asimov & James MacCreigh Novelette
326 Death Must Die Albert E. Cowdrey Novelette
339 The Transferred Ghost Frank Stockton Short Story
347 The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde Novelette
367 Pacific 421 August Derleth Short Story
375 The Midnight El Robert Weinberg Short Story
385 Punch and Judy Frederick Cowles Short Story
390 The Fireplace Henry S. Whitehead Short Story
400 The Night Wire H. F. Arnold Short Story
406 Smoke Ghost Fritz Leiber Short Story
417 Song of the Dead Wyatt Blassingame Novelette
437 The Dream Woman Wilkie Collins Novelette
469 The Adventure of the German Student Washington Irving Short Story
477 They Found My Grave Joseph Shearing Short Story
489 Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance Edgar Jepson Short Story
495 Night-Side Joyce Carol Oates Novelette
513 Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad M. R. James Novelette
525 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
533 The Toll-House W. W. Jacobs Short Story
539 Afterward Edith Wharton Novelette
557 Consequences Willa Cather Short Story
570 The Follower Lady Cynthia Asquith Short Story
575 The Corner Shop Lady Cynthia Asquith Short Story
584 The Terrible Old Man H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
588 The Murderer's Violin Erckmann-Chatrian Short Story
594 The Open Window Saki Short Story
598 Laura Saki Short Story
601 What Was It? Fitz-James O'Brien Short Story
610 Full Fathom Five Alexander Woollcott Short Story
613 He Cometh and He Passeth By H. R. Wakefield Novelette
630 Thurnley Abbey Perceval Landon Short Story
643 The Woman's Ghost Story Algernon Blackwood Short Story
650 The Angel of the Marne Victor Rousseau Essay
661 The Shell of Sense Olivia Howard Dunbar Short Story
669 The Avenging of Ann Leete Marjorie Bowen Short Story
681 The Dead-Wagon Greye La Spina Short Story
693 A Soul with Two Bodies Urann Thayer Novelette
711 The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee Arthur J. Burks Novelette
729 The Considerate Hosts Thorp McClusky Short Story
737 The Fifth Candle Cyril Mand Short Story
744 The Return of Andrew Bentley August Derleth & Mark Schorer Short Story
755 The Floor Above M. L. Humphreys Short Story
764 School for the Unspeakable Manly Wade Wellman Short Story
772 Mordecai's Pipe A. V. Milyer Short Story
776 He Walked by Day Julius Long Short Story
781 Behind the Screen Dale Clark Short Story
789 Journey Into the Kingdom M. Rickert Novelette
807 Mr. Saul H. R. F. Keating Short Story
816 Coventry Carol Chet Williamson Novelette
xi Introduction (The Big Book of Ghost Stories) Otto Penzler Essay

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