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Stories. The Travelling Bag (Feb 16th 2016 by Long Barn Books) - In a club in St James's a psychic detective recounts a startling case in the actual building. Lady Webb believes that her medical scientist husband's death is more sinister. She brings his long-used travelling bag to the detective who concentrates on it, and finds the truth about ...
Colloquially, the term "ghost story" can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story.
Publisher. Edward Arnold. Publication date. 1931. Publication place. United Kingdom. Media type. Print (hardback) The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories by English author M. R. James ', published in 1931, bringing together all but four of his ghost stories (which had yet to be published).
Print (hardback & paperback) " The Canterville Ghost" is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. [1] The story is about an American family who moved to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman ...
"Lot No. 249" is a Gothic horror short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1892. The story tells of a University of Oxford athlete named Abercrombie Smith who notices a strange series of events surrounding Edward Bellingham, an Egyptology student who owns many ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a mummy.
Publisher. Harper & Row. Publication date. 1981–1991. Publication place. United States. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell. In 2011, HarperCollins published editions featuring new art by Brett Helquist ...
The Lady of the Barge. Bill's Paper Chase. " The Monkey's Paw " is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1902, and was reprinted in his third collection of short stories, The Lady of the Barge, later that year. [1] In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw ...
Hermes Trismegistus, the Alchemical magus to whom Mr. Abney attributes the magical ritual of 'absorbing' the calcined hearts of three children, in order to obtain occult powers. " Lost Hearts " is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, originally published in 1895. It was later collected in his 1904 book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
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