This CD, with 93 books, includes works by Poe, LeFanu, Hodgson, Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. It covers stories about ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. These are works of fiction, not myths or folklore. It also includes gothic novels and books about Halloween.
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Table of contents:
About Ghost, Horror, and Supernatural Stories
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Greek and Roman Ghost Stories by lacy Collision-Morley
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Indian [of India] Ghost Stories by S. Mukerji
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Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by John Harris, 1901
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The Tale of Terror, a Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead
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True Irish Ghost Stories by St. John D. Seymour and Harry Neligan, 1914
About Halloween
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The Book of Halloween by Ruth Edna Kelley
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Games for Halloween by Mary Bain
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Why Bother to Save Halloween? (short) by Richard Seltzer
Anonymous
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Varney the Vampire (perhaps by Thomas Preskett Prest)
Collections
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The Haunted Hour, an Anthology compiled by margaret Widdemer
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The Haunters and the Haunted: Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural
edited by Ernest Rhys
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Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell
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Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn
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Vikram and the Vampire, Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
by Richard Burton
William Harrison Ainsworth
Louisa May Alcott
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The Abbot's Ghost (writing as A.M. Barnard)
Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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Les Diaboliques 1850-1874
Jane Austen
John Bangs
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Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
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Houseboat on the Styx
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Pursuit of the Houseboat
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The Water Ghost and Others
Robert Hugh Benson
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
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The Haunted and the Haunter
Alexandre Chatrian
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The Man Wolf and Other Tales (with Emile Erckmann)
F. Marion Crawford
Charles Dickens, English, 1812-1870
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A Christmas Carol
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Haunted Man
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Three Ghost Stories
Emile Erckmann
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The Man Wolf and Other Tales (with Alexandre Chatrian)
Paul Feval
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La Vampire, in French, without accents
George Griffith
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The Mummy and Miss Nitocris
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
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The Boats of Glen Carrig
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Carnacki the Ghost Finder
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The Ghost Pirates
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The House on the Borderland
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The Night Land
Clemence Housman
Walter Hubbell
Washington Irving
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Henry James (1843-1916)
M.R. James
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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A Thin Ghost and Others
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
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Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales
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volume 1 --
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Schalker the Painter, 1851
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An Accout of Some Strange Occurences in Aungier Street, 1852
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volume 2 --
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An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House, 1862
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Ultor de Lacy: a Legend of Cappercullen, 1861
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volume 3 --
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The Haunted Baronet, 1871
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volume 4 --
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Ghost Stories of Chapelizod, 1851
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The Drunkard's Dream, 1838
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The Ghost and the Bone-setter, 1838
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The Mysterious Lodger, 1850
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volume 5 --
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Laura Silver Bell, 1872
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Wicked Captain Walshawe, 1869
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The Child that West with the Fairies, 1870
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Stories of Lough Guir
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The Vision of Topm Chuff, 1870
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Dickon the Devil, 1872
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Carmilla (1872)
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The Evil Guest (1895)
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Green Tea (1871) and Mr. Justice Harbottle (1872)
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The House by the Church-Yard
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Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
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The Purcell Papers
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Volume 1
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Volume 2
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Volume 3
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The Room in the Dragon Volant
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Two Ghostly Mysteries (A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family and
The Mrudered Cousin)
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Uncle Silas
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Wylder's Hand (1864)
Vernon Lee
Jules Lermina
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Les Loups de Paris, in French
William Meinhold
Richard Middleton
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
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Crochet Castle
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Headlong Hall
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Nightmare Abbey
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
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The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Edgar Allan Poe, American, 1809-1849
The Raven edition of his works
Volume 1
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Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
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Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
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Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
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The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
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The Gold Bug
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Four Beasts in One
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
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The Balloon Hoax
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MS. Found in a Bottle
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The Oval Portrait
Volume 2
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The Purloined Letter
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The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
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A Descent into the Maelström
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Von Kempelen and his Discovery
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Mesmeric Revelation
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
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The Black Cat
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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Silence -- a Fable
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The Masque of the Red Death
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The Cask of Amontillado
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The Imp of the Perverse
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The Island of the Fay
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The Assignation
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The Pit and the Pendulum
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The Premature Burial
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The Domain of Arnheim
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Landor's Cottage
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William Wilson
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The Tell-Tale Heart
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Berenice
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Eleonora
Volume 3
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Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
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Ligeia
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Morella
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A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
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The Spectacles
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King Pest
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Three Sundays in a Week
Volume 4
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The Devil in the Belfry
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Lionizing
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X-ing a Paragrab
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Metzengerstein
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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
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The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
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How to Write a Blackwood article
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A Predicament
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Mystification
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Diddling
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The Angel of the Odd
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Mellonia Tauta
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The Duc de l'Omlette
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The Oblong Box
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Loss of Breath
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The Man That Was Used Up
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The Business Man
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The Landscape Garden
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Maelzel's Chess-Player
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The Power of Words
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The Colloquy of Monas and Una
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The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
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Shadow.--A Parable
Volume 5
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Philosophy of Furniture
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A Tale of Jerusalem
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The Sphinx
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Hop Frog
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The Man of the Crowd
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Never Bet the Devill Your Head
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Thou Art the Man
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Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
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Bon-Bon
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Some words with a Mummy
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The Poetic Principle
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Old English Poetry
Ann Radcliffe
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The Mysteries of Udolfo
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A Sicilian Romance
Mary Schweidler
Mary Shelley, English
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bram Stoker, 1847-1912
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Dracula
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The Jewel of the Seven Stars
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The Lady of the Shroud
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The Lair of the White Worm
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The Man
George Sylvester Viereck
Horace Walpole
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The Castle of Otranto
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Hieroglyphic Tales
Edith Wharton
Oscar Wilde, English, 1854-1900
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The Canterville Ghost, 1906
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Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
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The Picture of Dorian Grey
Mary Wilkins
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By the Light of the Soul
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The Wind in the Rose-Bush And Other Stories Of The Supernatural