Horror Various Authors: A Book of Ghosts — 52. v1. 07 May 2026

[GrannyGrump]

Thirteen sinister terrors, ghostly encounters, and mysterious episodes to bristle your hair and tingle your spine.

By various authors.
My own compilation.

A list of the titles:

Spoiler:

The Witch Aunt — 1809

by Charles Lamb
(1775–1834)

Reality Or Delusion? — 1868

by Ellen Wood
(1814–1887)

The House of Strange Stories — 1886

by Andrew Lang
(1844–1912)

Lot No. 249 — 1894

by Arthur Conan
()1859–1930

A Sworn Statement — 1897

by Emma Frances Dawson
(1839–1926)

A Ghost’s Revenge —

by “Lettice Galbraith”
(Lettice Susan Gibson)
(1859–1932)

Smeath — 1911

by Barry Pain
(1864–1928)

The Marble Hands — 1915

by Bernard Capes
(1854–1918)

The Moral Opiate — 1923

by William Bradley
(fl. 1920s)

The Snow-Image — 1850

by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804–1864)

The Magic Shop — 1903

by H. G. Wells
(1866–1946)

The Door in the Wall — 1906

by H. G. Wells
(1866–1946)

The Other Wing — 1915

by Algernon Blackwood
(1869–1951)

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