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The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories

Michael Kelahan

First published 2011
Publisher Fall River Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Charles Errard
Pages x+461
Price $7.98
ISBN 9781435124875

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "This 2011 edition published by Fall River Press"
  • First printing per number line
  • Title uses a stylized dash (similar to a sword) on cover and title page
  • Cover artist credit per copyright page
  • Cover design by Patrice Kaplan per rear dust jacket flap
  • No price on book. Price from Amazon as of 2012-09-04.
  • Each story is preceded, on story title page, with brief introduction to author & story
  • "Dr. Trifulgas" translator is not credited, but states it was the translation that first appeared in Strand, July 1895
  • Mentioned in Locus Magazine #607

Searching by ISBN: 9781435124875

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque Sir Walter Scott Short Story
14 Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter J. Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
35 No. 1 Branch Line—The Signal-man Charles Dickens Short Story
47 The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Henry James Short Story
63 The Captain of the Pole-Star Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle Novelette
83 Dr. Trifulgas Jules Verne Short Story
90 The Body-Snatcher Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
106 The Phantom 'Rickshaw Rudyard Kipling Novelette
125 The Upper Berth F. Marion Crawford Novelette
143 The Judge's House Bram Stoker Short Story
159 Over an Absinthe Bottle W. C. Morrow Short Story
168 In Kropfsberg Keep Ralph Adams Cram Short Story
177 How Love Came to Professor Guildea Robert S. Hichens Novella
217 A:B:O. Walter de la Mare Novelette
232 A Haunted Island Algernon Blackwood Short Story
246 The Bride M. P. Shiel Short Story
257 The Shadows on the Wall Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Short Story
271 "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" M. R. James Novelette
288 The Well W. W. Jacobs Short Story
299 The Stranger Ambrose Bierce Short Story
304 Afterward Edith Wharton Novelette
330 The Beckoning Fair One Oliver Onions Novella
385 On the Brighton Road Richard Middleton Short Story
389 The Clock William Fryer Harvey Short Story
394 The Shadowy Third Ellen Glasgow Novelette
414 The Nature of the Evidence May Sinclair Short Story
424 The Haunted Jarvee William Hope Hodgson Short Story
439 Brenner's Boy John Metcalfe Short Story
454 In the Vault H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
ix Introduction (The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories) Michael Kelahan Essay