Ghost Stories Books

Varney the Vampire

Thomas Preskett Prest

Varney the Vampire, the Gothic story has been written by ames Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in..

The Return of Peter Grimm

David Belasco

The present Editor has had many opportunities of studying the theatre side of David Belasco. He has been privileged to hear expressed, by this Edison of our stage, diverse opinions about plays and pla..

A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories

Montague Rhodes James

The curtains of the four-poster in the bedroom were closely drawn round four sides of it, and he put his finger in between them and felt in the bed. He drew the finger back hastily, for it almost seem..

The Ghost in the Red Shirt

B. M. Bower

We landed to visit a cave in the cliff, and Mabel and Clifford flirted outrageously. It wasn’t a bit interesting—I mean the cave. The flirting didn’t worry me: I was particularly nice to Professor Gol..

Over the Wire

Eugene Jones

But he opened up again the next moment with: “Good Lord, must be going off my nut. Nobody in the waiting-room. It’s the wind. I tell you this place is like the north pole. If I could only hear a fire ..