Great American Ghost Stories

By Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Bill Bowers

Subjects: Short stories, Union, Gothic fiction, Crime fiction, Fiction, ghost, Horror stories, Crime, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, Ghost stories, American Civil War, American Horror tales, Horror, first-person narrative, Murder, civil war, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, Fiction, Children's fiction, American ghost stories, Confederate States of America, American literature, Juvenile fiction, History, Classic Literature, Horror fiction, Detective and mystery stories, hanging

Description: Collection contains: The crime of Micah Rood / by Elia W. Peattie -- The devil and Tom Walker / by Washington Irving -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / by Ambrose Bierce -- The snow-image: a childish miracle / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A ghost of the Sierras / by Bret Harte -- The lady's maid's bell / by Edith Wharton -- A ghost story / by Mark Twain -- The night call / by Henry van Dyke -- Tom Toothacre's ghost story / by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A strange story from the coast / by Rebecca Harding Davis -- The woman at seven brothers / by Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The furnished room / by O. Henry -- The cross-roads / by Amy Lowell -- Jean-ah Poquelin / by George Washington Cable -- Mistress Marian's light / by Gertrude Morton -- Consequences / by Willa Cather -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The wind in the rose-bush / by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.