The Literate Ghost: The Library

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Although we would never suggest that reading these stories online is in any way comparable to sitting down with a good book, we also realize that sometimes you just don't have the time or ability to get at a hard copy of some of them. We try to add at least a few new stories every week. Please check back often!
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Please note: all stories included in this collection are (or are believed to be) in the public domain in the United States. That said, the layout, images, related materials and/or editorials are NOT in the public domain and are the property of The Literate Ghost.

Recent Additions

All Souls' Eve
Honeysuckle Cottage (Sat. Evening Post)
Honeysuckle Cottage (Mulliner Version)
The Furnished Room
The Return
The Queer Picture
The Dutch Officer's Story
The Cold Embrace
The Black Dog
The Man with the Roller
The Closed Window
Or Persons Unknown
August Heat
Across the Moors
At the Gate

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A

Across the Moors
All Souls' Eve
An Arrest
And No Bird Sings
At the Gate
August Heat


B

The Black Dog
Blind Man's Buff

C

Catherine's Quest
Charles Ashmore's Trail
The Closed Window
The Cobweb
The Cold Embrace
A Cold Greeting
The Crown Derby Plate

D

The Dead Valley
The Dutch Officer's Story

F

The Furnished Room


G

Gabriel-Ernest
The Glamour of the Snow
GLÁMR
A Grammatical Ghost
Grand-Dame's Ghost Story

H

Honeysuckle Cottage (Sat. Evening Post)
Honeysuckle Cottage (Mulliner Version)
House of the Nightmare
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery

K

The Kit-Bag

L

Laura
Lost Hearts

M

Madam Crowl's Ghost
The Man with the Roller
Man-Size in Marble
The Marble Hands
The Music on the Hill
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached

N

Number 13

O

At Old Man Eckert's
The Old Portrait
On the Leads
Or Persons Unknown
The Other Lodgers

P

The Phantom Hag
The Portent of the Shadow
Present at a Hanging

Q

The Queer Picture

R

Rats
The Red Room
The Return
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
The Room in the Tower

S

A School Story
The Shadows on the Wall
Smee
A Spectral Collie
The Spook House
Story of an Obstinate Corpse
The Striding Place

T

The Tapestried Chamber
There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
The Thing in the Forest
Thurnley Abbey
Introduction to "Told After Supper"
The Tomb of Sarah
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

U

Uncle Abraham's Romance

V

The Vampire Maid
The Vengeance of a Tree
A Vine on a House

W

Wailing Well
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
The Well
The White Flag
The Wishing-Well
The Wolves of Cernogratz


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A

Author Unknown

Grand-Dame's Ghost Story
The Phantom Hag
Catherine's Quest

Gertrude Atherton


B

John Kendrick Bangs


Sabine Baring-Gould


A. C. Benson

The Closed Window

E.F. Benson

And No Bird Sings
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
The Room in the Tower
The Wishing-Well

Ambrose Bierce

A Vine on a House
An Arrest
A Cold Greeting
At Old Man Eckert's
The Other Lodgers
Present at a Hanging
Charles Ashmore's Trail
The Spook House

Algernon Blackwood


Marjorie Bowen


Mary E. Braddon

The Cold Embrace

A.M. Burrage


C

Bernard Capes

The Marble Hands
The Thing in the Forest
The Queer Picture


Myla Jo Closser

At the Gate

Ralph Adams Cram

The Dead Valley

Stephen Crane

The Black Dog

Catherine Crowe

The Dutch Officer's Story


F

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The Shadows on the Wall

G

R. Murray Gilchrist

The Return

H

W. F. Harvey

Across the Moors
August Heat

J

W. W. Jacobs

The Well

Henry James

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

M. R. James

A School Story
Lost Hearts
Number 13
Rats
There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
Wailing Well

Jerome K. Jerome

Introduction to "Told After Supper"

L

Percival Landon

Thurnley Abbey

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Madam Crowl's Ghost

Eleanor F. Lewis

The Vengeance of a Tree

F. G. Loring

The Tomb of Sarah

N

Edith Nesbit

Man-Size in Marble
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached
The Portent of the Shadow
Uncle Abraham's Romance

Hume Nisbet

The Old Portrait
The Vampire Maid

O

O.Henry

The Furnished Room

P

Elia W. Peattie

A Grammatical Ghost
A Spectral Collie
Story of an Obstinate Corpse

S

Saki

The Cobweb
Gabriel-Ernest
Laura
The Music on the Hill
The Wolves of Cernogratz

Sir Walter Scott

The Tapestried Chamber

Dora Sigerson Shorter

All Souls' Eve

E. G. Swain

The Man with the Roller

W

H.R. Wakefield

Blind Man's Buff
Or Persons Unknown

H.G. Wells

The Red Room

Edward Lucas White

House of the Nightmare

P. G. Wodehouse

Honeysuckle Cottage (Sat. Evening Post)
Honeysuckle Cottage (Mulliner Version)


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