Ghost, Horror, and Supernatural Stories (including Gothic Novels and Halloween)

Ghost, Horror, and Supernatural Stories, including Gothic Novels and Halloween, <i>updated 7/15/2009</i>
Ghost, Horror, and Supernatural Stories, including Gothic Novels and Halloween, updated 7/15/2009
Item# ISBN 0915232294
$19.00

Product Description

This CD, with 130 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.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

Table of contents:

About Ghost, Horror, and Supernatural Stories

  • Greek and Roman Ghost Stories by Lacy Collision-Morley
  • Indian [of India] Ghost Stories by S. Mukerji
  • Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by John Harris, 1901
  • Stories of Mystery, Little Classics edited by Rossiter Johnson
  • The Tale of Terror, a Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead
  • True Irish Ghost Stories by St. John D. Seymour and Harry Neligan, 1914

About Halloween

  • The Book of Halloween by Ruth Edna Kelley
  • Games for Halloween by Mary Bain
  • Why Bother to Save Halloween? (short) by Richard Seltzer


Anonymous

  • Varney the Vampire (perhaps by Thomas Preskett Prest)


Collections

  • The Best Ghost Stories (Modern Library)
  • Famous Modern Ghost Stories edited by Dorothy Scarborough
  • The Haunted Hour, an Anthology compiled by margaret Widdemer
  • The Haunters and the Haunted: Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural edited by Ernest Rhys
  • Humorous Ghsot Stories selected by Dorothy Scarborough
  • Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories edited by Joseph Lewis French
  • Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell
  • Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn
  • Uncanny Tales
  • Vikram and the Vampire, Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Richard Burton

William Harrison Ainsworth

  • The Lancashire Witches


Louisa May Alcott

  • The Abbot's Ghost (writing as A.M. Barnard)


Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  • Les Diaboliques 1850-1874


Jane Austen

  • Northanger Abbey


John Bangs

  • Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
  • Houseboat on the Styx
  • Pursuit of the Houseboat
  • The Water Ghost and Others

Arnold Bennett

  • The Ghost, a Modern Fantasy


Robert Hugh Benson

  • The Ncromancers


H. Addington Bruce

  • Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters


Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

  • The Haunted and the Haunter

Alexandre Chatrian

  • The Man Wolf and Other Tales (with Emile Erckmann)

Wilkie Collins

  • Little Novels


F. Marion Crawford

  • The Witch of Prague

Charles Dickens, English, 1812-1870

  • A Christmas Carol
  • Haunted Man
  • Three Ghost Stories


Ellsworth Douglass

  • Pharoah's Broker, being the very remarkable experiences in another world of Isidor Werner


Emile Erckmann

  • The Man Wolf and Other Tales (with Alexandre Chatrian)


Paul Feval

  • La Fee, in French
  • La Vampire, in French, without accents


Hamlin Garland

  • The Shadow World


Theophile Gautier

  • The Mummy's Foot, translated by lafcadio Hearn


Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey

  • The Ghost Breaker, a novel based upon the play


E.M. Gollan [aka Rita]

  • The Mystery of a Turkish Bath


George Griffith

  • The Mummy and Miss Nitocris


Wilhelm Hauff

  • The Severed Hand


Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • The Mable Faun
    • volume 1
    • volume 2


Lafcadio Hearn

  • Some Chinese Ghosts


William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)

  • The Boats of Glen Carrig
  • Carnacki the Ghost Finder
  • The Ghost Pirates
  • The House on the Borderland
  • The Night Land

Clemence Housman

  • The Were-Wolf, 1896


Walter Hubbell

  • The Haunted House


Mrs. Hungerford

  • The Haunted Chamber


John Conran Hutcheson

  • The Ghost Ship


Washington Irving

  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow


Henry James (1843-1916)

  • The Turn of the Screw


M.R. James

  • Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
    • part 1
    • part 2
  • A Thin Ghost and Others


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)

  • Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales
    • volume 1 --
      • Schalker the Painter, 1851
      • An Accout of Some Strange Occurences in Aungier Street, 1852
    • volume 2 --
      • An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House, 1862
      • Ultor de Lacy: a Legend of Cappercullen, 1861
    • volume 3 --
      • The Haunted Baronet, 1871
    • volume 4 --
      • Ghost Stories of Chapelizod, 1851
      • The Drunkard's Dream, 1838
      • The Ghost and the Bone-setter, 1838
      • The Mysterious Lodger, 1850
    • volume 5 --
      • Laura Silver Bell, 1872
      • Wicked Captain Walshawe, 1869
      • The Child that West with the Fairies, 1870
      • Stories of Lough Guir
      • The Vision of Topm Chuff, 1870
      • Dickon the Devil, 1872
  • Carmilla (1872)
  • The Evil Guest (1895)
  • Green Tea (1871) and Mr. Justice Harbottle (1872)
  • The House by the Church-Yard
  • Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
  • The Purcell Papers
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2
    • Volume 3
  • The Room in the Dragon Volant
  • Two Ghostly Mysteries (A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family and The Mrudered Cousin)
  • Uncle Silas
  • Wylder's Hand (1864)


Vernon Lee

  • Hauntings


Jules Lermina

  • Les Loups de Paris, in French


Matthew Lewis

  • The Monk


Hermann Lons

  • Der Wehrwolf, in German

Amy Lowell

  • Men, Women, and Ghosts


Guy de Maupassant

  • Le Horla, in French

William Meinhold

  • Sidonia the Sorceress
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2


Richard Middleton

  • The Ghost-Ship


Christopher Morley

  • The Haunted Bookshop


William D. O'Connor

  • The Ghost


Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)

  • Crochet Castle
  • Headlong Hall
  • Nightmare Abbey


J.H. Pearce

  • Drolls from Shadowland


Howard Pease

  • Border Ghost Stories


Elia Wilkinson Peattie

  • The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales


Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

  • Men, Women, and Ghosts


Edgar Allan Poe, American, 1809-1849

The Raven edition of his works

Volume 1

  • Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
  • Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
  • Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
  • The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
  • The Gold Bug
  • Four Beasts in One
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
  • The Balloon Hoax
  • MS. Found in a Bottle
  • The Oval Portrait
Volume 2
  • The Purloined Letter
  • The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
  • A Descent into the Maelström
  • Von Kempelen and his Discovery
  • Mesmeric Revelation
  • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  • The Black Cat
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • Silence -- a Fable
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • The Cask of Amontillado
  • The Imp of the Perverse
  • The Island of the Fay
  • The Assignation
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • The Premature Burial
  • The Domain of Arnheim
  • Landor's Cottage
  • William Wilson
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Berenice
  • Eleonora
Volume 3
  • Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
  • Ligeia
  • Morella
  • A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
  • The Spectacles
  • King Pest
  • Three Sundays in a Week
Volume 4
  • The Devil in the Belfry
  • Lionizing
  • X-ing a Paragrab
  • Metzengerstein
  • The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
  • The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
  • How to Write a Blackwood article
  • A Predicament
  • Mystification
  • Diddling
  • The Angel of the Odd
  • Mellonia Tauta
  • The Duc de l'Omlette
  • The Oblong Box
  • Loss of Breath
  • The Man That Was Used Up
  • The Business Man
  • The Landscape Garden
  • Maelzel's Chess-Player
  • The Power of Words
  • The Colloquy of Monas and Una
  • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
  • Shadow.--A Parable
Volume 5
  • Philosophy of Furniture
  • A Tale of Jerusalem
  • The Sphinx
  • Hop Frog
  • The Man of the Crowd
  • Never Bet the Devill Your Head
  • Thou Art the Man
  • Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
  • Bon-Bon
  • Some words with a Mummy
  • The Poetic Principle
  • Old English Poetry


Ann Radcliffe

  • The Mysteries of Udolfo
  • A Sicilian Romance


Clara Reeve

  • The Old English Baron


George Reynolds

  • Wagner, The Wehr-Wolf


Mary Schweidler

  • The Amber Witch


Mary Shelley, English

  • Frankenstein


Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde


Bram Stoker, 1847-1912

  • Dracula
  • The Jewel of the Seven Stars
  • The Lady of the Shroud
  • The Lair of the White Worm
  • The Man


Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Oldtown Fireside Stories, 1872


George Sylvester Viereck

  • The House of the Vampire


Horace Walpole

  • The Castle of Otranto
  • Hieroglyphic Tales


Edith Wharton

  • Tales of Men and Ghosts


Oscar Wilde, English, 1854-1900

  • The Canterville Ghost, 1906
  • Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
  • The Picture of Dorian Grey

Mary Wilkins

  • By the Light of the Soul
  • The Wind in the Rose-Bush And Other Stories Of The Supernatural