Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories Selected with an Introduction Illustrated Spectral Sagas Haunting Tales for the Modern Imagination written by Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a curated realm of modern ghost stories that will both intrigue and chill your senses. Famous Modern Ghost Stories: Selected, with an Introduction, (Illustrated): Spectral Sagas: Haunting Tales for the Modern Imagination: Step into a world where the boundary between reality and the supernatural blurs, as Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. invites you on an immersive journey through the haunting tales of our time. In Famous Modern Ghost Stories: Selected, with an Introduction, prepare to be captivated by a handpicked collection of eerie narratives that bridge the gap between the contemporary and the ethereal. Why This Book? Uncover the enigma of the unknown with these carefully chosen stories that delve into the realms of phantoms, apparitions, and unexplained phenomena. With an introduction that sets the stage for the eerie encounters to come, this book combines literary brilliance with the inexplicable, making it a must-read for those intrigued by the mysterious and the uncharted. Each tale in this illustrated anthology beckons you to explore the intricacies of the human experience, set against a backdrop of the supernatural. As the veil between the seen and the unseen is lifted, immerse yourself in stories that tap into the deepest corners of fear and fascination. With modern storytelling at its finest, Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D. invites you to unlock the door to a world where the paranormal and the contemporary intertwine. For fans of both the classic ghost story and the modern literary masterpiece, Famous Modern Ghost Stories: Selected, with an Introduction is a captivating fusion that will leave you spellbound. Engage with a collection that offers insightful commentary on the eerie and unexplained, all while reveling in the artistry of storytelling that transcends time itself.
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 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 The Big Book of Ghost Stories written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in book form. Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these stories are guaranteed to thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep you turning the pages with fearful delight. Including such classics as “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Open Window” and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore! AlsoFeaturing haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore!
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Various and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Modern Ghost Stories Selected, with an Introduction By Dorothy Scarborough 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. Even a Lodge in any vast wilderness would have the company of spirits. Man's love for the supernatural, which is one of the most natural things about him, was never more marked than at present. You may go a-ghosting in any company to-day, and all aspects of literature, novels, short stories, poetry, and drama alike, reflect the shadeless spirit. The latest census of the haunting world shows a vast increase in population, which might be explained on various grounds. * 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
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Robinson. 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.
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 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 Ghost Stories written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 written by Wilbur Daniel Steele and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Modern Ghost Stories, a collection of ghost stories written by notable authors, most of whom were born in the 1800's, was selected by Dorothy Scarborough and published in 1920. 'Modern' is retained in the title of this book out of respect for Dorothy Scarborough's work in writing and editing, even though many of the stories are now over 100 years old. The collection, however, is notable as a collection of many of the best ghost stories of the time, written by authors who pioneered in the field. Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935), an American writer of folk culture, cotton farming, and ghost stories, graduated from Baylor University, studied at the University of Chicago and Oxford University and received a doctorate of literature from Columbia University in 1917, where she taught until her death in 1935. Her dissertation The Supernatural in Modern English, regarded as a basic information source was published in 1917 and remains in print today. In addition to teaching and writing she edited Famous Modern Ghost Stories and several other collections of ghost stories.
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 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."
Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by neobooks. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts are the true immortals, because they fulfill the dream of many people, immortality. But whether this dream is happy? The dead are becoming more and more alive, see Walking Dead or Zombiecide. Ghosts are more alive today than ever before, in literature they celebrate a true resurrection. To see this, you only have to take a look at the German publisher Saphir im Stahl, which is reissuing old English stories. They are more numerous in literature than werewolves, vampires or zobies. People are becoming more and more interested in them. That's why the stories from 1921 are being reissued.
Download or read book Modern Ghost Stories written by Emma May Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Ghost Stories written by Brian Haughton and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history and critique of a selection of the famous ghost stories from different countries, organized by such common themes as spectral armies, phantom women in white, haunted houses, screaming skulls, crisis apparitions, and ghostly lights.
Download or read book Ghostly written by Audrey Niffenegger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected and introduced by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry—including Audrey Niffenegger’s own stunning illustrations for each piece—this is a “spine-tingling” (Chicago Tribune) collection of some of the best ghost stories of all time. From Edgar Allen Poe to Kelly Link, MR James to Neil Gaiman, HH Munro to Audrey Niffenegger herself, Ghostly spans the whole history of the ghost story genre from gothic horror to the modern era. Each story is introduced by Audrey Niffenegger, with short original commentary and background on why she chose to include it. Also included is Niffenegger’s own story, “A Secret Life with Cats.” Perfect for the classic and contemporary ghost story aficionado, this haunting volume showcases the best of the best in the field—including Edgar Allan Poe, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Edith Wharton, P.G. Wodehouse, Ray Bradbury, and so many more. “Audrey Niffenegger is a master of the supernatural…She knows a good horror story when she sees one. Ghostly is her collection of the best of the genre” (Bustle).
