Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural

By: Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger

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Synopsis: Following their acclaimed Ghost Stories and Weird Women, award-winning anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton present a new eclectic anthology of ghosty tales certain to haunt the reader long past the closing page.In Haunted Tales, the reader will enjoy discovering masterpieces like Algernon Blackwood&’s terrifying &“The Kit-Bag,&” Oscar Wilde&’s delightful &“The Canterville Ghost,&” and F. Marion Crawford&’s horrific &“The Screaming Skull,&” as well as lesser-known gems by some of literature&’s greatest voices, including Virginia Woolf&’s &“A Haunted House,&” H. G. Wells&’s &“The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,&” and Rudyard Kipling&’s &“They.&” Haunted Tales also resurrects some wonders that have been woefully neglected, including Dinah Mulock&’s &“M. Anastasius&” (which Charles Dickens called &“the best ghost story ever written&”); E. F. Benson&’s &“The Bus-Conductor&” (the source of one of the most iconic lines in horror); and E. and H. Heron&’s &“The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith&” (the debut adventure of Flaxman Lowe, fiction&’s first psychic detective). Whether the stories are familiar or overlooked, all are sure to surprise and astonish the reader long past the closing of this book&’s cover.