A Modern Library anthology introduced by Arthur B. Reeve, who asks why ghost stories hold us as detective stories do. The selection runs from Defoe’s ‘The Apparition of Mrs. Veal’ and Bulwer-Lytton’s ‘The Haunted and the Haunters’ to M. R. James’s ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book’ and tales of banshees and silent women.
A well-chosen sampler of classic English and American ghost fiction for long evenings. Download the free EPUB.