Famous Ghost Stories

Collection of 15 short stories dealing with hauntings or other macabre circumstances. (The additional section, "The Current Crop of Ghost Stories," gives the editor's written versions of various ghostly urban legends circulating in his time.) Among the stories included are "The Haunted and the Haunters," "The Beckoning Fair One," and "The Monkey's Paw."

• Author
• Bennett Cerf, August Derleth, Karen Blixen, William Fryer Harvey, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Brander Matthews, M.R. James, Richard Barham Middleton, Oliver Onions, Saki, E.F. Benson, Mark Schorer, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thorp McClusky

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 361

• Publisher
• Vintage Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780394701400

• Genres
• horror, fiction, anthologies, ghosts

• Release date
• 1956