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FAMOUS MODERN GHOST STORIES

SELECTED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, Ph.D.

LECTURER IN ENGLISH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
AUTHOR OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN MODERN ENGLISH FICTION, FUGITIVE VERSES, FROM A SOUTHERN PORCH, ETC.
COMPILER OF HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press

1921

Printed in the United States of America

To

ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, Litt. D.
Professor of English, Columbia University

who guided my earlier studies in the supernatural

CONTENTS

• Introduction: The Imperishable Ghost
• The Willows
  • By Algernon Blackwood
• The Shadows on the Wall
  • By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Messenger
  • By Robert W. Chambers
• Lazarus
  • By Leonid Andreyev
• The Beast with Five Fingers
  • By W. F. Harvey
• The Mass of Shadows
  • By Anatole France
• What Was It?
  • By Fitz-James O'Brien
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