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From Washington Irving's early American hauntings to Virginia Woolf's modernist unease, this sweeping collection gathers thirty tales of ghosts, curses, and things that should not be. Mary Shelley's gothic imagination, Charles Dickens's haunted houses, M. R. James's antiquarian terrors, and Henry James's psychological dread sit alongside Oscar Wilde's wit and H. G. Wells's speculative chills, tracing the occult and supernatural short story across a century of English-language fiction. Whether you crave a quiet creeping unease or a full gothic fright, this anthology delivers thirty reasons to read past midnight. This Chronicle Vault edition presents the complete, unabridged texts in a clean, fully reflowable format for all e-readers.

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