This is an omnibus collection of ghost and horror stories. As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves.

• The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens
• August Heat by W. F. Harvey
• The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
• “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” by M. R. James
• The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards
• The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce
• Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe