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Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough et al. 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 We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Illustrated written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitality today than ever before. They are far more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are more interested in them. There are persons that claim to be acquainted with specific spirits, to speak with them, to carry on correspondence with them, and even some who insist that they are private secretaries to the dead. Others of us mortals, more reserved, are content to keep such distance as we may from even the shadow of a shade. . . ." Dorothy Scarborough said in her introduction to this volume, setting the books tone quite nicely.Scarborough was a lecturer in English for Columbia University who also worked as an author and anthologist. Her works included The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction, Fugitive Verses, From a Southern Porch, all of which she authored; she also compiled volumes of stories, including this one and Humorous Ghost Stories.Among the authors anthologized here are Algernon Blackwood, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Robert W. Chambers, Anatole France, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and Guy de Maupassant.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Selected with an Introduction written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1921, this is an anthology of famous and chilling ghost stories compiled by Dorothy Scarborough. She was a lecturer in English for Columbia University, as well as author who producing such notable works as "The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction" and "From a Southern Porch." Scarborough was also a keen anthologist and authorised such horror greats as Algernon Blackwood, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Robert W. Chambers, Anatole France, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and Guy de Maupassant. This collection of supernatural tales will appeal to all lovers of the genre, and is not to be missed by collectors of vintage ghost stories and related work. Emily Dorothy Scarborough (1878 - 1935) was an American writer famous for her work related to Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest. Other notable works by this author include: "Fugitive Verses" (1912), "From a Southern Porch" (1919), and "The Wind" (1925). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of modern ghosts, as well as to show the art of individual stories."
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