Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough collected these late 19th and early 20th century ghost stories in 1921. It contains the following works: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers, Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev, The Beast with Five Fingers by W. F. Harvey, The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France, What Was It? by Fitz-James O’Brien, The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce, The Shell of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar, The Woman at Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel Steele, At the Gate by Myla Jo Closser, Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe, The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne, The Bowmen by Arthur Machen, A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant.