More Spooky Tales for Fall and Cold Winter Nights
While looking around for more great old-time ghost stories, I came across another great website collection of stories here. To avoid the risk of them disappearing, I copy them here (again) for your enjoyment.
Wailing Well – M.R. James
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/jamesX31.htm
The Shadow in the Corner – M.E. Braddon
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/shadcorn.htm
The Furnished Room – O. Henry
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/FurRoo.shtml
In the Tube – E.F. Benson
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/benson/ef/in-the-tube/
The Open Window – Saki
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/OpeWin.shtml
What Was It? – Fitz-James O’Brien
http://www.bartleby.com/195/13.html
The Lost Ghost – Mary E. Wilkins
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LostGhos.shtml
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar – Edgar Allen Poe
http://poestories.com/read/facts
The Burned House – Vincent O’Sullivan
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Century-1916oct-00843
Christmas Meeting – Rosemary Timperley
http://recursosdidacticos.es/textos/texto.php?id=414
The Little Ghost – Hugh Walpole
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0604071h.html#s10
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance – M.R. James
http://www.thin-ghost.org/items/show/156
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot – Ambrose Bierce
http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/2010/
W.S. – L.P Hartley
https://frankzumbach.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/l-p-hartley-w-s/
The Upper Berth – Marion Crawford
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0604221h.html
At The Gate – Myla Jo Closser
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Gate846.shtml
A Ghost – Guy de Maupassant
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Ghos835.shtml
The Red Room – H.G. Wells
http://archive.org/stream/theredroom23218gut/23218.txt
The Ash Tree – M.R. James
http://www.thin-ghost.org/items/show/133
Smee – A.M. Burrage
https://anilbalan.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/smee-by-am-burrage-_-scary-for-kids.pdf
Hand in Glove – Elizabeth Bowen
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/benson/glove.html
The Cigarette Case – Oliver Onions
http://shortstories.ucgreat.com/read/018/238.htm
The Ebony Frame – E. Nesbit
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602551.txt
The Mezzotint – M.R. James
http://www.thin-ghost.org/items/show/145
Collections these stories come from for further reading:
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1947)
M.R James: Collected Ghost Stories (1992)
The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe (1992)
Gothic Short Stories (ed. David Blair) (2002)
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (2006)
Ambrose Bierce: The Spook House (2008)
The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories (2008)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (2009)
Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories (2012)
Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories (2013)