Bodies of the Dead and Other Great American Ghost Stories (1997) is a collection of thirteen classic stories by Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.
Bram Stoker's Best Ghost and Horror Stories (1997) is a collection of fourteen spine-tingling stories by the author of Dracula.
Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926 (1997) collects twenty-two stories by well-known and long-forgotten writers including Zora Neale Hurston and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott (1995) demonstrates that the author of Little Women had a darker and more humorous side.
"The Premature Burial" (1844), another one of Poe's tales of horror, is a catalog of anecdotes.....
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