• Publication: Great Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 411922
• Editor: Harrison Dale
• Date: 1931-01-00
• Publisher: Herbert Jenkins
• Price:
  3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 399
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 31-14067
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 6596358

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 5 • Introduction (Great Ghost Stories) • (1930) • essay by Harrison Dale
• 35 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 63 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1852) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell
• 97 • What Was It? • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 118 • The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1921) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
• 177 • Madam Crowl's Ghost • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 199 • The Cedar Closet • (1874) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 214 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 230 • Teig O'Kane and the Corpse • (1918) • short story by Douglas Hyde [as by Traditional]
• 250 • The Lady's Maid's Bell • (1902) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 284 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 317 • The Mummy's Foot • (1926) • short story by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of Le pied de momie 1840)
• 336 • Maese Pérez, the Organist • (1926) • short story by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (trans. of Maese Pérez, el organista (Leyenda sevillana) 1866)
• 354 • The Tall Woman • (1926) • novelette by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (trans. of La mujer alta 1882)
• 376 • The Corpse the Blood-Drinker • (1913) • short story by
  蒲松龄^?Pú Sōnglíng
  Pu Songlin
  Pu Sung-ling
  (trans. of
  屍變^?Shī biàn
  1766) [as by uncredited]
• 381 • The Story of Ming-Y • (1887) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn