Twenty-Five Ghost Stories ed. W. Bob Holland (J.S. Ogilvie, 1904, 255pp, hc, an)
Anthology of British & American Victorian ghost stories. In original edition stories were all anonymous. Later printings gave some credits. Reprinted in this form as The Permabook of Ghost Stories, Permabooks, 1950. See later anonymous Avon pb editions as The Haunted Hotel and 25 Other Ghost Stories, 1941, Twenty-Five Great Ghost Stories, 1943, and 20 Great Ghost Stories, 1955.
- 5 · Preface · W. Bob Holland · pr (r)
- 7 · The Black Cat · [uncredited] · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843, as by Edgar Allan Poe
- 28 · The Flayed Hand · Guy de Maupassant, uncredited; translated by E. C. Waggener · ss 1875
- 37 · The Vengeance of a Tree · Eleanor F. Lewis, uncredited · ss
- 44 · The Parlor-Car Ghost · A Lady (by Elisabeth Cavazza) · ss The New York Advertiser 1895; in this version has an American setting.
- 51 · Ghost of Buckstown Inn · Arnold M. Anderson, uncredited · ss (r)
- 59 · The Burglar’s Ghost · A Constabulary Officer · ss (r)
- 76 · A Phantom Toe · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 81 · Mrs. Davenport’s Ghost · Frederick F. Schrader, uncredited · ss (r)
- 90 · The Phantom Woman · [unknown author] · ss (r)
- 100 · The Phantom Hag · [uncredited] · ss
- 105 · From the Tomb · [uncredited] · ss (r), as by Guy de Maupassant
translated from the French (“La Tombe”, Gil Blas, July 29, 1884).
- 114 · Sandy’s Ghost · A Witness · ss (r)
- 123 · The Ghosts of Red Creek · S. T. · ss
- 128 · The Spectre Bride · Elia Wilkinson Peattie, uncredited · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Macmillan, 1898, as “On the Northern Ice”
- 134 · How He Caught the Ghost · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 144 · Grand-Dame’s Ghost Story · C. D. · ss (r)
- 153 · A Fight with a Ghost · Q. E. D. · ss (r)
- 168 · Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story · [uncredited] · nv The English Illustrated Magazine December 1897, as by S. Baring-Gould
- 190 · The Ghost of the Count · A Spinster · ss (r)
- 202 · The Old Mansion · A Sportsman · ss (r)
- 210 · A Misfit Ghost · [unknown author] · ss (r)
- 215 · The Unbidden Guest · [uncredited] · ts The Argosy (UK) April 1894
- 220 · The Dead Woman’s Photograph · Elia Wilkinson Peattie, uncredited · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Macmillan, 1898, as “Story of an Obstinate Corpse”
- 228 · The Ghost of a Live Man · A Traveller · ss (r)
- 236 · The Ghost of Washington · W. Bob Holland, uncredited · ss
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