Great Classic Ghost Stories

Summary

This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans.

This recording includes: “The Damned Thing,” by Ambrose Bierce; “The Empty House,” by Algernon Blackwood;“The Consequences,” by Willa Cather; “How It Happened,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “A Ghost,” by Guy De Maupassant; “The Shell of Sense,” by Olivia Howard Dunbar; “Ligeia,” by Edgar Allen Poe; “The Signal-Man,” by Charles Dickens; “The Secret of the Growing Gold,” by Bram Stoker; “The Fullness of Life,” by Edith Wharton; “An Old Woman’s Tale,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne; “Playing with Fire,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “Narrative of the Ghost of the Hand,” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” by Edgar Allan Poe; “My Platonic Sweetheart,” by Mark Twain; and “The Bold Dragoon (or The Adventure of My Grandfather),” by Washington Irving.