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Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Selected by Dorothy Scarborough

Narrated by Caitlin Buckley, Cate Barratt, Ashley Music, John Burlinson and Alexa Sheppard.

Ghosts have always haunted literature, and it seems that they always will. Spectres seem never to wear out or to die, but renew their tissue both of person and of raiment, in extravagant fashion, so that their number increases voluminously and continuously. Today we have ghosts that haunted our ancestors, as well as our own modern revenants, and there appears to be no earthly use trying to banish or exorcise them by such a simple strategy as refusing to believe in them. Since man knows that whether or not he has seen a ghost, presently he will become one, and thus he has become fascinated with the subject. Therefore he creates ghosts, not merely in his own image, but according to his dreams of power.

Contents
1. Introduction – The imperishable ghost by Dorothy Scarborough
2. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
3. The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
4. The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers
5. Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev
6. The Beast with Five Fingers by W.F.Harvey
7. The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France
8. What was It? By Fitz-James O’Brien
9. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
10. The Shell of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar
11. The Woman at Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel Steele
12. At the Gate by Myla Jo Glosser
13. Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
14. The Haunted Orchard by Richard le Gallienne
15. The Bowmen by Arthur Machen
16. A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant

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