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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Classic Ghost Stories Classic Ghost Stories Charles Dickens,Montague Rhodes James Signal-man / Charles Dickens -- Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad / M.R. James -- Mezzotint / M.R. James -- To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens -- Rats / M.R. James. OL14926911W
Classic Ghost Stories Classic Ghost Stories O. Henry,Francis Marion Crawford,Rudyard Kipling,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,E. F. Benson,Montague Rhodes James,Saki,Vincent O'Sullivan,P C Wren Judge's house / Bram Stoker -- Upper berth / F. Marion Crawford -- Narrative of the Ghost of a hand / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens -- Tell-tale heart … OL15062277W
The Haunted Dolls' House The Haunted Dolls' House Robert Louis Stevenson,Montague Rhodes James Evil comes with many different faces.A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls' house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from pers… OL15191387W
Great Short Stories of the World Great Short Stories of the World Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak … OL16048288W
Short Stories, Please! Short Stories, Please! H. G. Wells,Dylan Thomas,Arthur Conan Doyle,Thomas Hardy,Антон Павлович Чехов,Oscar Wilde,Rudyard Kipling,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Montague Rhodes James,Saki,Katherine Mansfield,Hilary Laurie [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Boule de suif / Guy de Maupassant -- Baa baa, black sheep / Rudyard Kipling -- On the western circuit / Thomas … OL17577122W
Scary! 2 Scary! 2 Arthur Conan Doyle,Anne McCaffrey,Robert Swindells,Philip Pullman,Bram Stoker,Dean Koontz,R. L. Stine,Russell Hoban,Peter Haining,Neil Gaiman,Montague Rhodes James,Pete Johnson,Alison Prince Video Nasty by Philip Pullman The House Of No Return by R.L. Stine Lost Hearts by M.R. James Finders Keepers by Anne McCaffrey The Black Dress by Alison Prince The Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan… OL17852862W
Ghostly Ghostly P. G. Wodehouse,Kelly Link,A. S. Byatt,Edith Wharton,Ray Bradbury,Rudyard Kipling,Alfred McLelland Burrage,Edgar Allan Poe,Audrey Niffenegger,Rebecca Curtis,Neil Gaiman,Montague Rhodes James,Saki,Anna Giacalone Ramat,Oliver Onions [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allen Poe -- Secret life, with cats / Audrey Niffenegger -- Pomegranate seed / Edith Wharton -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -… OL19626052W
Psalms of the Pharisees: Commonly Called the Psalms of Solomon : the Text Newly Revised from All ... Psalms of the Pharisees: Commonly Called the Psalms of Solomon : the Text Newly Revised from All ... Herbert E. Ryle,Herbert Edward Ryle,Montague Rhodes James Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. OL19817287W
The Color of Evil The Color of Evil Michael Shea,Robert Bloch,Edith Nesbit,Charles L. Grant,Harlan Ellison,Stephen King,H.P. Lovecraft,Ray Bradbury,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Lucy Clifford,Fritz Leiber,John Collier,Russell Kirk,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Manly Wade Wellman,David G. Hartwell,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Karl Edward Wagner,Robert Aickman The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Ct… OL2989331W
The Dark Descent The Dark Descent Michael Shea,Walter De la Mare,Dennis Etchison,Robert Bloch,Fitz-James O'Brien,Edith Nesbit,Charles L. Grant,Richard Matheson,David Herbert Lawrence,Harlan Ellison,Edith Wharton,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Stephen King,Thomas M. Disch,William Faulkner,Ramsey Campbell,H.P. Lovecraft,Tanith Lee,Ray Bradbury,Theodore Sturgeon,Charles Dickens,Clive Barker,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Philip K. Dick,Edgar Allan Poe,Lucy Clifford,Fritz Leiber,Robert Hichens,John Collier,Joyce Carol Oates,Flannery O'Connor,Russell Kirk,Algernon Blackwood,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Gene Wolfe,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Manly Wade Wellman,David G. Hartwell,Robert Chambers,Shirley Jackson,Joanna Russ,Montague Rhodes James,Ivan Turguenev,Karl Edward Wagner,Oliver Onions,Robert Aickman pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russ… OL2989350W
The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Thomas Hardy,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Edgar Allan Poe,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Robert Etty,Montague Rhodes James The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the… OL3085486W
The Nightmare Reader The Nightmare Reader John Gawsworth,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert Bloch,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Washington Irving,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Ray Bradbury,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Arthur C. Clarke,Edgar Allan Poe,Елена Петровна Блаватская,Montague Summers,Thomas De Quincey,Algernon Blackwood,Lord Dunsany,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Aleister Crowley,Peter Haining,Arthur Machen,Montague Rhodes James,Lafcadio Hearn,August Derleth,Matthew Lewis,C.F. Hoffman CONTENTS: Introduction. What hath light wrought? / by Isaac Asimov Visitation. The midnight embrace / by Matthew Lewis The Frankenstein theme. The transformation / by Mary Shelley Dream state. … OL3151660W
Count Magnus and other ghost stories Count Magnus and other ghost stories Montague Rhodes James Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fiction—in one chilling volumeThe only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the… OL707881W
A warning to the curious and other stories A warning to the curious and other stories Montague Rhodes James M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisabl… OL707900W
The collected ghost stories of M. R. James The collected ghost stories of M. R. James Montague Rhodes James https://openlibrary.org/works/OL707919W OL707904W
A thin ghost and others A thin ghost and others Montague Rhodes James This volume of M.R. James's classic ghostly fiction contains: "Preface," "The Residence at Whitminster," "The Diary of Mr. Poynter," "The Episode of Cathedral History, "The Story of a Disappearance a… OL707922W
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories Montague Rhodes James In late Victorian England, Edward Dunning finds he is slowly being victimized by an insidious curse after declining to publish a paper on the occult by the reclusive Mr. Karswell. OL7969628W
The Evil Image The Evil Image Lord Byron,Charlotte Brontë,A. E. Coppard,John Keats,Nora Jaffe,Thomas Hardy,Daniel Defoe,Washington Irving,Henry James,William Butler Yeats,Stephen King,William Faulkner,Stephen Crane,Emily Brontë,Charles Dickens,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Robert Louis Stevenson,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Patricia L. Skarda,Edgar Allan Poe,Eudora Welty,Flannery O'Connor,Christina Georgina Rosetti,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Mary Alcock,Ann Radcliffe,Montague Rhodes James,John Aikin,John William Polidori,Anne Sexton,Sir Walter Scott xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredi… OL8200891W
Classic Ghost Stories Classic Ghost Stories Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,W. W. Jacobs,Joseph Conrad,Ambrose Bierce,Francis Marion Crawford,Rudyard Kipling,Robert Louis Stevenson,Benjamin Disraeli,Edgar Allan Poe,Bill Bowers,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Mary E. Wilkins,E. F. Benson,Rebecca Harding Davis,Montague Rhodes James,Louisa Baldwin,W.F. Harvey Teig O'Kane and the corpse -- The ghost of fear / H.G. Wells -- The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford -- Canon Alberic's scrap-book / M.R. James -- A true story / Benjamin Disraeli -- The pha… OL8508037W