This is an omnibus collection of ghost and horror stories. As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves.
Contents:
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens
August Heat by W. F. Harvey
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You my Lad" by M. R. James
The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards
The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce
Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
