Horror Various Authors: A Book of Ghosts — 51. v1. 03 May 2026

[GrannyGrump]

Thirteen haunting tales for bed-time reading…

By various authors.
My own compilation.

A list of the titles:

Spoiler:

The New Pass – 1870

by Amelia B. Edwards
(1831–1892)

The Veiled Portrait – 1874

by James Grant
(1822–1887)

My Dream – 1889

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
(1835–1915)

The Fear that Walks by Noonday – 1895

by Willa Cather
(1873–1947)

When Time Turned – 1901

by Ethel Watts Mumford
(1878–1940)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – 1922

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896–1940)

The Man Who Lived Backwards – 1930

by Algernon Blackwood
(1869–1951)

The Kit-Bag – 1903

by Richard Marsh
(1857–1915)

The Kit-Bag – 1908

by Algernon Blackwood
(1869–1951)

The Whistling Room – 1910

by William Hope Hodgson
(1877–1918)

The Watcher o’ the Dead – 1929

by John Guinan
(1874–1945)

The Shut Room – 1930

by Henry S. Whitehead
(1882–1932)

The Closed Door – 1933

by Harold Ward
(1879–1950)

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