Haunted Tales

Following their acclaimed Ghost Stories and Weird Women, award-winning anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton present a new eclectic anthology of ghosty tales certain to haunt the reader long past the closing page. In Haunted Tales, the reader will enjoy discovering masterpieces like Algernon Blackwoods terrifying The Kit-Bag, Oscar Wildes delightful The Canterville Ghost, and F. Marion Crawfords horrific The Screaming Skull, as well as lesser-known gems by some of literatures greatest voices, including Virginia Woolfs A Haunted House, H. G. Wellss The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost, and Rudyard Kiplings They. Haunted Tales also resurrects some wonders that have been woefully neglected, including Dinah Mulocks M. Anastasius (which Charles Dickens called the best ghost story ever written); E. F. Bensons The Bus-Conductor (the source of one of the most iconic lines in horror); and E. and H. Herons The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith (the debut adventure of Flaxman Lowe, fictions first psychic detective). Whether the stories are familiar or overlooked, all are sure to surprise and astonish the reader long past the closing of this books cover.