- Publication: Famous Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 308945
- Editor: Bennett Cerf
- Date: 1944-00-00
- Publisher: Modern Library
- Pub. Series: The Modern Library of the World's Best Books
- Pub. Series #: 73
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Price: $1.25?$: US dollar
- Pages: xi+361
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Webpages: archive.org
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Notes: Cerf's introduction is dated 1943.
- External IDs:
Anthology Title:
Famous Ghost Stories • anthology by
Bennett Cerf
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- ix • Introduction (Famous Ghost Stories) • essay by Bennett Cerf
- 3 • The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1859) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- 32 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
- 42 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
- 54 • The Phantom 'Rickshaw • (1885) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
- 78 • The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
- 131 • The Rival Ghosts • (1884) • novelette by Brander Matthews
- 150 • The Man Who Went Too Far • (1904) • novelette by E. F. Benson
- 173 • The Mezzotint • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
- 186 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 190 • The Beckoning Fair One • (1911) • novella by Oliver Onions
- 260 • On the Brighton Road • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
- 264 • The Considerate Hosts • (1939) • short story by Thorp McClusky
- 276 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey
- 282 • The Return of Andrew Bentley • (1933) • short story by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
- 300 • The Supper at Elsinore • (1934) • novella by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]
- 351 • The Current Crop of Ghost Stories • essay by Bennett Cerf
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