Thirteen Famous Ghost Stories

Thirteen Famous Ghost Stories is an anthology of 13 classic tales of ghosts, apparitions and supernatural disturbance, edited and introduced by Peter Underwood. It brings together distinguished writers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Charles Dickens, M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton and W. W. Jacobs.

The selection ranges from Dickens’s railway-side haunting in “The Signalman” and the ominous wish-fulfilment of “The Monkey’s Paw” to James’s “Martin’s Close”, Wharton’s “Afterward” and Bierce’s “The Damned Thing”. Arthur Machen, Edith Nesbit, E. F. Benson, Lord Lytton, Vincent O’Sullivan and A. J. Alan also feature, giving the collection a broad survey of classic literary ghost-story traditions.