Product Description

Ten classics of supernatural fiction by masters of the macabre: Bram Stoker’s "The Judge’s House," "The Moonlit Road" by Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James’s "The Rose Garden," Charles Dickens’ "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt," "Dickon the Devil" by J. S. LeFanu, E. G. Swain’s "Bone to His Bone" and five others.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223008 in Books
• Published on: 1992-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

Customer Reviews

Some well-known, others off the beaten path
This is quite a nice collection of ghost stories, very cheap in the Dover Thrift Editions.

Some of the selections are classic, such as Amelia B. Edwards' "The Phantom Coach," and W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw," which is an excellent story to be told around a campfire at night. A story by J. Sheridan Lefanu is almost obligatory, of course, in this case, "Dickon the Devil," and one may also expect a story by Ambrose Bierce, "The Moonlit Road," which appears in a Bierce anthology, as well.

Others, such as Charles Dickens' "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt," Bram Stoker's chilling, "The Judge's House," and E. F. Benson's "The Confession of Charles Linkworth," are more unusual.

These stories are from the latter half of the 19th century and early 20th century, and provide and interesting insight into many of the moral values of the time.

A good introduction to classic ghost stories....
Why an "introduction"? If you are a fan of ghost stories and have a collection of books on the subject, you probably already have all the stories in this book. I will not list them all since another reviewer has already done so.

Although all of the stories deal with ghosts (well, "The Monkey's Paw" is arguably not a ghost story, but spooky nonetheless), most of them do not deal with a malevolent spirit bent on our destruction. Only "The Judge's House" and "A Ghost Story" deal with an angry spirit. The rest are tales of ghostly happenings, but nothing like you might find in a horror movie.

Given the price, I would recommend this to someone who does not normally read a lot of ghost stories. Otherwise, you probably have these in your collection already.

Great selections of ghost stories...at an unbeatable price!
Ten classic horror tales that will have you keeping the lights on at night! These tales were published between 1864 and 1912, which is considered by some to be the "golden age" of horror and supernatural fiction. These stories are a great cross-section of the genre, and at this low price, it makes a wonderful introduction to the classic ghost stories.