FAMOUS GHOST STORIES: Published by RANDOM HOUSE for MODERN LIBRARY BOOKS in 1944 & compiled and edited with introductory note by BENNETT CERF. Deep in the of every human being, no matter how rational or skeptical, there lurks a fascination for the weird and occult. Disbelief does not lay ghosts, nor do the tests of science exorcise them. Stairs creak in the dar with the tread of unseen visitors; cemeteries send up midnight apparitions; and headless horsemen ride in the moonlight. In this completely revised edition of Famous Ghost Stories, Bennett Cerf has included such classics of the supernatural as “The Beckoning Fair One,” “The Willows,” “The Supper At Elsinore,” and “The Phantom Rickshaw.”
Featured: THE DAMNED THING by AMBROSE BIERCE, THE MONKEY’S PAW by W W JACOBS, THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW by RUDYARD KIPLING, THE WILLOWS by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, THE RIVAL GHOST by BRANDER MATHEWS, THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR by E F BENSON, THE MEZZOTINT by MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, THE OPEN WINDOW by SAKI, THE BECKONING FAIR ONE by OLIVER ONIONS, ON THE BRIGHTON ROAD by RICHARD MIDDLETON, THE CONSIDERATE HOSTS by THORP McCLUSKY, AUGUST HEAT by W F HARVEY, THE RETURN OF ANDREW BENTLEY by AUGUST W DERLETH & MARK SCHORER, THE SUPPER AT ELSINORE by ISAK DINESEN, THE CURRENT CROP OF GHOST STORIES by BENNETT CERF
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