Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Classic Reprint written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Famous Modern Ghost Stories Ghosts have always haunted literature, and doubtless always will. Specters seem never to wear out or to die, but renew their tissue both of person and of raiment, in marvelous fashion, so that their number increases with a Malthusian relentlessness. We of to - day have the ghosts that haunted our ancestors, as well as our own modern revenants, and there's no earthly use trying to banish or exorcise them by such a simple thing as disbelief in them. Schopenhauer asserts that a belief in ghosts is born with man, that it is found in all ages and in all lands, and that no one is free from it. Since accounts vary, and our carli est antecedents were poor diarists, it is 'difficult to establish the apostolic succession of spooks in actual life, but in literature, the line reaches back as far as the primeval picture writing. A study of animism in primitive culture shows many interest Ing links between the past and the present in this matter. And anyhow, since man knows that whether or not he has seen a ghost, presently he'll be one, he's fascinated with the subject. And he creates ghosts, not merely in his own image, but according to his dreams of power. The more man knows of natural laws, the keener he is about the supernatural. He may claim to have laid aside superstition, but he isn't to be believed in that. Though he has discarded witch craft and alchemy, it is only that he may have more time for psychical research; true, he no longer dabbles with ancient magic, but that is because the modern types, as the ouija board, entertain him more. He dearly loves to traffic with that other world of which he knows so little and concerning which he is so curious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough Contains the following stories: 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.
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.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Various and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts have always haunted the pages of literature and the more man knows about the natural world the more he seems to crave stories about the supernatural. Ghosts sweep, flutter haunt and scare. They come in all shapes sizes and temperaments. This collection contains the following stories. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, The Shadows on the Wall by Mary Freeman, The Messenger by Robert Chambers, Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev, The Beast with the Five fingers by W F Harvey, The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France, What Was It? By Fits-James O'Brien, The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambroise Bierce, The Shell of Sense by Olivia Dunbar, The Woman at Seven Brothers by Wilbur Steele, At the Gate by Myla Closser, Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe, The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne, The Bowmen by Arthur Machen, and A Ghost by Buy De Maupassant.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Modern Ghost Stories Various Authors Selected, with an Introduction by Dorothy Scarborough, PH.D. 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.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Esprios Classics written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Dorothy Scarborough (January 27, 1878 - November 7, 1935) was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest. "Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day 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. But there's no getting away from ghosts nowadays, for even if you shut your eyes to them in actual life, you stumble over them in the books you read, you see them on the stage and on the screen, and you hear them on the lecture platform."
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Selected with an Introduction written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 230 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 the Original Classic Edition written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Dorothy Scarborough (Columba U) has selected a truly horrifying, frightening and bloodcurdling selection of Ghost Stories. Including Ambrose Bierce, an American genius, who ranks with Poe and Lovecraft as one of the greatest writers of horror stories. His tales of ghosts and horror are like no other, and one story in particular, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, is considered to be one of the finest ever written. This book is considered a classic for all that it offers and is far superior than todays pale imitations, this collection goes deep into the mind of morbid. If you truly are a connoisseur of unfathomable horror, you will treasure this fine collection. Prepare to be scared, VERY SCARED!
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Annotated Calvary Editions written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to read some scary and famous ghost stories? If so, this a must read, this book is a collection of 15 ghost stories. Famous Modern Ghost Stories, as one reviewer said, some of these stories chilled me to the bone, while others were slightly scary and a little nerve-racking. Good book!Famous Modern Ghost Stories is a horror fiction novel written Dorothy Scarborough. A ghost story may be any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. The "ghost" may appear of its own accord or be summoned by magic.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Large Print written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the stories.The Imperishable GhostThe Willows The Shadows on the WallThe Messenger Lazarus The Beast with Five Fingers The Mass of Shadows What Was It? The Middle Toe of the Right FootThe Shell of SenseThe Woman at Seven Brothers At the GateLigeia The Haunted Orchard The Bowmen A Ghost
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Esprios Classics written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 0 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 to-day 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.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Dorothy Scarborough Et Al. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Modern Ghost Stories Famous Modern Ghost Stories Et Al. Selected, With An Introduction By DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, PH.D. Lecturer In English, Columbia University Author Of The Supernatural In Modern English Fiction, Fugitive Verses, From A Southern Porch, Etc. Compiler Of Humorous Ghost Stories 1921
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Dorothy 1878-1935 Scarborough and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Dorothy 1878-1935 Scarborough and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Various and published by Pinnacle Press. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood. This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, was published and in the intervening years a great many other distinguished writers have tried their hand at this popular genre - some basing their fictional tales on real supernatural experiences of their own.
