Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
By Anonymous
Cover: The Nightmare (1781), oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1825)
An anthology of twenty-five ghost stories gathered by W. Bob Holland in the 1920s, mixing famous names with half-forgotten ones. A reader finds short haunted-house and apparition tales for the evening.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: The Black Cat
- 2: The Flayed Hand
- 3: The Vengeance of a Tree
- 4: The Parlor-Car Ghost
- 5: Ghost of Buckstown Inn
- 6: The Burglar’s Ghost
- 7: A Phantom Toe
- 8: Mrs. Davenport’s Ghost
- 9: The Phantom Woman
- 10: The Phantom Hag
- 11: From the Tomb
- 12: Sandy’s Ghost
- 13: The Ghosts of Red Creek
- 14: The Spectre Bride
- 15: How He Caught the Ghost
- 16: Grand-Dame’s Ghost Story
- 17: A Fight with a Ghost
- 18: Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story
- 19: The Ghost of the Count
- 20: The Old Mansion
- 21: A Misfit Ghost
- 22: An Unbidden Guest
- 23: The Dead Woman’s Photograph
- 24: The Ghost of a Live Man
- 25: The Ghost of Washington