Famous Modern Ghost Stories
113 Installments—Entirely free
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Members' Rating:
from 21 Ratings and 6 Reviews
Tags: Classics, Horror, Short Stories
ISBN:140650162X
Description
In the mood for some thrills and chills? Curl up with this 1921 collection of spooky tales by some of the English language’s best writers. Such masters of the supernatural as Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Machen bring you terrifying tales of revenge from beyond the grave, frightening stories of shadowy spirits who threaten their victims’ sanity, and touching pieces about love and devotion that know no (earthly) bounds.
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Opening Lines (Experimental)
Selected by Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D.
of the publishers and Algernon Blackwood.
After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Buda-Pesth, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the ...
Member reviews
4/5
Reviewed by WandaMaynard on Apr 17, 2011
Filled with Surprise
Famous Modern Ghost Stories was filled with surprise endings that left me wondering how the characters felt. Each story opened up with excitement of, what will happen next? The characters all seemed to be waiting in fear and awe of the next moment to come, and how to deal with it. A great book to read on a stormy night.
4/5
Reviewed by TimHoward on Jun 8, 2010
Great book.
Great book.
5/5 
Reviewed by kburleson on May 22, 2009
Loved it.
I love these kind of ghost stories!
5/5
Reviewed by susansomberg on Jan 22, 2009
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Chilling!
5/5
Reviewed by conronus on Mar 31, 2009
good and scary
last story had me trembling. Now what will this one bring?
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Ratings for 'Famous Modern Ghost Stories' by Various
| 82.TROY.82 | | 2009-04-29 | |
| CherylsPearls | | 2009-02-09 | |
| conronus | | Read review | 2009-03-31 |
| daliwarn |  | 2010-02-27 | |
| eileen1971 |  | 2009-10-21 | |
| foufou7777 | | 2009-03-31 | |
| jennanicole_84 | | 2009-03-23 | |
| jilska | | 2008-12-22 | |
| kburleson | | Read review | 2009-05-22 |
| LadyJPC | | 2009-01-11 | |
| lalita | | 2009-03-20 | |
| luvpumpkns | | 2009-05-21 | |
| mridulm | | 2012-06-01 | |
| psycheinaboat | | 2010-08-09 | |
| rkongana | | Read review | 2008-08-28 |
| rricha2861 | | 2010-05-23 | |
| susansomberg | | Read review | 2009-01-22 |
| sweetaspie_1987 | | 2009-12-17 | |
| TimHoward | | Read review | 2010-06-08 |
| turtle7761 |  | 2011-08-29 | |
| WandaMaynard | | Read review | 2011-04-17 |
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