A Century of Ghost Stories

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Cecil Binney, Walter Scott

13 • The Familiar • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
53 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
89 • The Saint and the Vicar • (1935) • short story by Cecil Binney
101 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
117 • Gibbet Lane • (1935) • short story by Anthony Gittins
127 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1852) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell
151 • The Residence at Whitminster • (1919) • novelette by M. R. James
175 • A Warning to the Curious • (1925) • short story by M. R. James
195 • The Haunted and the Haunters • (1931) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton]
235 • The Green Room • (1925) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
275 • Eveline's Visitant • (1867) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [as by Miss Braddon]
287 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
319 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
331 • Man Overboard! • (1903) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
369 • As in a Glass Dimly • (1931) • short story by Shane Leslie
381 • The Lord-in-Waiting • (1929) • short story by Shane Leslie
401 • Dracula's Guest • [Dracula] • (1914) • short story by Bram Stoker
415 • Expiation • (1923) • short story by E. F. Benson
433 • Pirates • (1928) • short story by E. F. Benson
453 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
465 • Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
483 • The Rosewood Door • (1929) • novella by Oliver Onions
537 • The Virgin of the Seven Daggers • (1889) • novelette by Vernon Lee
565 • The Library Window • (1881) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
609 • The Song in the House • (1933) • short story by Ann Bridge
629 • The Operation • (1911) • novelette by Violet Hunt
657 • The Sweeper • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
673 • The Running Tide • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
689 • Perez • (1922) • short story by W. L. George
705 • The Spectre of Tappington • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • (1934) • novelette by Richard Harris Barham [as by R. H. Barham]
733 • The Phantom Coach • (1864) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
749 • The Gray Champion • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
757 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
773 • The Dream Woman • (1874) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman)
799 • The Lifted Veil • (1859) • novelette by George Eliot
843 • The Werewolf • (1924) • short story by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf (excerpt: chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship) 1839)
865 • The Ghost-Seer (excerpt) • (1789) • short fiction by Friedrich von Schiller [as by Frederich Von Schiller]
907 • The Botathen Ghost • (1867) • short story by R. S. Hawker
919 • The Story of the Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
939 • John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
949 • The Klausenburg • (1888) • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Klausenburg 1837)
989 • Berenice • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835)
999 • The Haunted Ships • (1821) • short story by Allan Cunningham

Genres: Horror

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1936

About the author

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M.R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.