Horror Various Authors: A Book of Ghosts — 45. v1. 07 Jan. 2026

[GrannyGrump]

Thirteen tales of mystery and madness and murder…

By various authors.
My own compilation.

A list of the titles:

Spoiler:

The Dark Lady – 1847

by Ann Maria Hall
(1800–1881)

The Ghost – 1862

by Ellen Wood
(1814–1887)

The Ghost at the Cross-Roads – 1893

by Frederick Manley
(fl. 1890s)

The Demon Spell – 1894

by Hume Nisbet
(1849–1921)

The Lodger – 1911

by Marie Belloc Lowndes
(1868–1947)

The Ghost of Rhodes House – 1895

by William Theophilus Nichols
(1863–1931 ?? )

The Shadow of a Midnight – 1908

by Maurice Baring
(1874–1945)

The Long Chamber – 1914

by Olivia Howard Dunbar
(1873–1953)

The Swaying Vision – 1915

by Jessie Douglas Kerruish
(1884–1949)

Timber – 1920

by John Galsworthy
(1867–1933)

The Woman with the Velvet Collar – 1924

by Gaston Leroux
(1868–1927)

On the Isle of Blue Men – 1927

by Robert W. Sneddon
(1880–1944)

The Shuttered Room – 1929

by E. F. Benson
(1867–1940)

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