Famous Modern Ghost Stories

By Various

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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, Ambros ...

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Dracula

By Bram Stoker

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Bram Stoker's Dracula is full of the kind of chills and thrills that mark the very best horror stories and films. Jonathan Harker, a freshly-minted English lawyer, travels to Transylvania to take on a ...

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Frankenstein

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Dr. Frankenstein's dark alchemy brings a monster to life one fateful day. His form is a hulking mass of dead body parts, his appearance wild and ghoulish. This is a nightmarish creature, frightening a ...

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The Pit and the Pendulum

By Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allen Poe’s 1842 Pit and Pendulum is the story of a prisoner trapped in solitary confinement during the Spanish Inquisition. The prisoner’s cell is completely dark and, unable to make sense ...

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The Tell-Tale Heart

By Edgar Allan Poe

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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. Above all was the sense of ...

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The Masque of the Red Death

By Edgar Allan Poe

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THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH. THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal -- the redness and the horror of bl ...

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The Black Cat

By Edgar Allan Poe

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An unforgivable act of cruelty touches off a chilling series of events in Edgar Allen Poe’s 1843 story The Black Cat. The narrator of Poe’s tale owns many pets with his wife and thinks of himself ...

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By Washington Irving

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In Washington Irving’s classic 1820 tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, two men vie for the hand of the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. Abraham Van Brunt, a dim-witted oaf, is sure that Katrina will cho ...

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