Great American Ghost Stories

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

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

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.