100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1993
Edition: First Edition

Description: 546 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Be afraid, be very afraid: really scary things can come in small packages, and these 100 frightening little tales offer big chills and thrills. They represent more than 150 years worth of writing, and include the greats: H.P. Lovecraft ("The Terrible Old Man"), Ambrose Bierce ("The Stranger"), Lafcadio Hearn ("A Dead Secret"), Oscar Wilde ("The Sphinx Without a Secret"), and J. Sheridan Le Fanu ("The Ghost and the Bone-Setter"). Best of all, a variety of human emotions and behavior come to the fore, from avarice (August Derleths "Pacific 421") to revenge (Thorp McCluskeys "Black Gold"), from jealousy (Steve Rasnic Tems "Daddy") to honor (Edith Nesbits "John Charringtons Wedding") to love (Darrell Schwietzers "Clocks"). Using a minimum of elements, each ghost story in this collection will entertain, captivate, and evoke a powerful response in readers. So be warned: you might not want to read these while youre all alone in the house... * xiii - Introduction - Stefan R. Dziemianowicz * 1 - Across the Moors - William Fryer Harvey - ss Midnight House and Other Tales, J.M. Dent, 1910 * 5 - Attorney for the Damned - Renier Wyers - ss Weird Tales May 36 * 13 - Away - Barry N. Malzberg - ss A Treasury of American Horror Stories, ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Bonanza/Crown Books, 1985 * 16 - Behind the Screen - Dale Clark - ss Weird Tales Apr 34 * 24 - Black Gold - Thorp McClusky - ss Weird Tales Apr 37 * 29 - Bone to His Bone - E. G. Swain - ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales, W. Heffer: Cambridge, 1912 * 36 - The Burned House - Vincent OSullivan - ss The Century Oct 16 * 43 - Clocks - Darrell Schweitzer - ss The Horror Show Spr 89 * 46 - The Closed Door - Harold Ward - ss Weird Tales Dec 33 * 53 - The Coat - A. E. D. Smith - ss Powers of Darkness, ed. Anon., P. Allan, 1934 * 59 - The Cold Embrace - Mary E. Braddon - ss Welcome Guest Sep 29, 1860 * 67 - Coming Home - Nina Kiriki Hoffman - ss Authors Choice Monthly #14 90 * 75 - Concert to Death - Paul Ernst - ss Weird Tales Nov 34 * 82 - The Considerate Hosts - Thorp McClusky - ss Weird Tales Dec 39 * 92 - Daddy - Steve Rasnic Tem - vi Footsteps #7 86 * 95 - Dark Mummery - Thorp McClusky - ss Weird Tales Nov 44 * 103 - Date in the City Room - Talbot Johns - ss Weird Tales Jan 39 * 107 - A Dead Secret - Lafcadio Hearn - vi Kwaidan, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 * 109 - The Door - Henry S. Whitehead - ss Weird Tales Nov 24 * 113 - Drowned Argosies - J. Wilmer Benjamin - ss Weird Tales Jul 34 * 117 - Dust - Edna Goit Brintnall - ss Weird Tales Jul 32 * 121 - Edge of the Cliff - Dorothy Quick - vi Weird Tales Mar 41 * 124 - Faces [Strange Tales from Santo Domingo] - Arthur J. Burks - ss Weird Tales Apr 27 * 131 - Fancy That - J. N. Williamson - ss Fantasy Tales, v.10 #1, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1988 * 135 - Father Macclesfields Tale - R. H. Benson - ss A Mirror of Shalott, London: Pitman, 1907 * 141 - The Furnished Room - O. Henry - ss The Four Million, Doubleday, 1906 * 147 - The Garret of Madame Lemoyne - W. K. Mashburn, Jr. - ss Weird Tales Jan 28 * 153 - The Ghost and the Bone-Setter - J. Sheridan Le Fanu - ss Dublin University Magazine Jan, 1838 * 161 - A Ghost-Child - Bernard Capes - ss The Pall Mall Magazine Jan 06 * 167 - The Ghost Farm - Susan Andrews Rice - vi Weird Tales May 25 * 170 - Ghost Story [“Skyghosts and Dusk-Devils] - Alan Brennert - ss Future Pastimes, ed. Scott Edelstein, Aurora, 1977 * 174 - The Ghosts at Haddon-le-Green - Alfred I. Tooke - vi Weird Tales Feb 38 * 176 - Ghosts of the Air - J. M. Hiatt & Moye W. Stephens - ss Weird Tales Jun 26 * 182 - Gibblers Ghost [“Full of, Mostly, Bagels and Cream Cheese] - William F. Nolan - ss Alien Horizons, Pocket, 1974 * 186 - A Grammatical Ghost - Elia W. Peattie - ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales, Macmillan, 1898 * 191 - The Grey Room - Stefan Grabinski; trans. by Miroslaw Lipinski - ss * * 198 - Guarded - Mearle Prout - ss Weird Tales Mar 38 * 203 - Harmless Ghosts [Penelope Pettiweather] - Jessica Amanda Salmonson - ss Harmless Ghosts, Haunted Library, 1990 * 209 - The Haunted Burglar - W. C. Morrow - ss Lippincotts Jul, 1897 * 213 - He Walked by Day - Julius Long - ss Weird Tales Jun 34 * 219 - Her New Parents - Steve Rasnic Tem - pm Weirdbook #23 88 * 225 - Highwaymen - W. Benson Dooling - ss Weird Tales Feb 29 * 229 - The Honor of Don Pedro - Wallace J. Knapp - ss Weird Tales Jul 35 * 236 - The House of Shadows - Mary Elizabeth Counselman - ss Weird Tales Apr 33 * 243 - How He Left the Hotel - Louisa Baldwin - ss The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories, Dent, 1895 * 247 - Jerry Bundler - W. W. Jacobs - ss The Windsor Magazine Dec, 1897 * 254 - John Charringtons Wedding - Edith Nesbit - ss Temple Bar Sep, 1891 * 260 - Kharu Knows All - Renier Wyers - ss Weird Tales Jul 36 * 266 - The Last of Squire Ennismore - Mrs. J. H. Riddell - ss Idle Tales, Ward & Downey, 1888 * 272 - The Light Was Green - John Rawson Speer - ss Weird Tales Jan 38 * 279 - McGills Appointment - Elsie Ellis - vi Weird Tales Jan 26 * 281 - The Man on B-17 - Stephen Grendon - ss Weird Tales May 50 * 286 - Mandolin - Will Oursler - ss Weird Tales Jun 34 * 289 - The Metronome - August W. Derleth - ss Terror by Night, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, London: Selwyn & Blount, 1934 * 295 - Miss Prue - Fred Chappell - ss Cold Mountain Review Spr 81 * 298 - Monsieur De Guise - Perley Poore Sheehan - ss The Scrap Book Jan 11 * 303 - Mordecais Pipe - A. V. Milyer - vi Weird Tales Jun 36 * 305 - The Murderers Violin [“The Violin of the Man That Was Hanged] - Erckmann-Chatrian - ss Dublin University Magazine Sep, 1876 * 311 - The Night Caller - G. L. Raisor - ss The Horror Show Sum 89 * 315 - The Night Wire - H. F. Arnold - ss Weird Tales Sep 26 * 321 - O Come Little Children... - Chet Williamson - ss Spirits of Christmas, ed. Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell, Wynwood, 1989 * 330 - On the Brighton Road - Richard Middleton - ss The Ghost Ship, Unwin, 1912 * 333 - Our Late Visitor [as by Joseph Lavinson] - Marvin Kaye - ss Brother Theodores Chamber of Horrors, ed. Marvin Kaye, Pinnacle, 1975 * 337 - Out of Copyright - Ramsey Campbell - ss Hot Air, 1980 * 344 - Pacific 421 - August W. Derleth - ss Weird Tales Sep 44 * 352 - The Pedicab - Donald R. Burleson - ss * * 358 - The Phantom Express - H. Thompson Rich - vi Weird Tales Oct 26 * 360 - The Piper from Bhutan - David Bernard - ss Weird Tales Feb 38 * 366 - The Rats - M. R. James - ss Shudders, Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1929 * 371 - The Readjustment - Mary Austin - ss Harpers Monthly Apr 08 * 377 - Rebels Rest - Seabury Quinn - ss Weird Tales Jul 50 * 384 - Relationships - Robert Sampson - ss Strange Plasma #1 89 * 390 - Rendezvous - Richard H. Hart - ss Weird Tales Jan 36 * 397 - The Return - R. Murray Gilchrist - ss The National Observer * 402 - The Return [as by Marjory E. Lambe] - G. G. Pendarves - ss Hutchinsons Mystery Story Magazine Mar 24 * 406 - Rose Rose - Barry Pain - ss The London Magazine May 10 * 412 - Safety Zone - Barry Malzberg - ss New England Ghosts, ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press, 1990 * 418 - Shadows Cast Behind - Otto E. A. Schmidt - ss Weird Tales Apr 27 * 426 - Shadows in the Grass [“Shadows on the Grass] - Steve Rasnic Tem - ss The Nineteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, ed. R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Fontana, 1983 * 430 - The Sixth Tree - Edith Lichty Stewart - ss Weird Tales May-Jul 24 * 434 - The Soul of Laploshka - Saki - ss Reginald in Russia, 1910 * 438 - The Sphinx Without a Secret [“Lady Alroy] - Oscar Wilde - ss The World May 25, 1887 * 442 - The Splendid Lie - S. B. H. Hurst - vi Weird Tales Jul 32 * 445 - A Sprig of Rosemary - H. Warner Munn - ss Weird Tales Jun 33 * 452 - The Stone Coffin - B - ss Magdalene Collage Magazine Dec 13 * 458 - A Strange Goldfield - Guy Boothby - ss The Lady of the Island, London: John Long, 1904 * 464 - The Stranger - Ambrose Bierce - ss Cosmopolitan Feb 09 * 468 - Summerland - Avram Davidson - ss F&SF Jul 57 * 472 - The Terrible Old Man - H. P. Lovecraft - vi The Tryout Jul 21 * 475 - The Terror by Night - E. F. Benson - ss The Room in the Tower and Other Stories, London: Mills Boon, 1912 * 481 - The Theater Upstairs - Manly Wade Wellman - ss Weird Tales Dec 36 * Thirteen Phantasms * 490 - Three Gentlemen in Black - August W. Derleth - ss Weird Tales Aug 38 * 498 - The Tree-Man Ghost - Percy B. Prior - ss Weird Tales Mar 28 * 502 - The True History of Anthony Ffryar [as by Ingulphus] - Arthur Gray - ss The Cambridge Review Feb 16 11 * 508 - Two - Al Sarrantonio - ss The Horror Show Fll 88 * 516 - Under the Eaves - Helen M. Reid - vi Weird Tales Jun 32 * 519 - A Visitor from Far Away - Loretta G. Burrough - ss Weird Tales Feb 36 * 525 - Waiter Number 34 - Paul Ernst - ss Weird Tales Jul 35 * 534 - The Woman in Gray - Walker G. Everett - ss Weird Tales Jun 35 * 539 - The Word of Bentley - E. Hoffmann Price - ss Weird Tales May 33

ISBN: 9781566191067