• Publication: Famous Modern Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 359293
• Editor: Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D.
• Date: 1921-00-00
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Price:
  $3.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xxii+419
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • This edition is the source for Project Gutenberg Ebook #15143 (see).
  • Price from Tuck
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy (without original cover probably): -- title page Every story is preceded by a title leaf whose verso, facing the beginning of the story, usually notes the source, copyright, and permission. The three exceptions are the two earliest stories (1838 and 1859, in the public domain?) and the last one, whose title-verso note is simply (p408): "Translated for this volume by M. Charles Sommer."
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1446
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1601572
  • Reginald-1: 12747

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction: The Imperishable Ghost • essay by Dorothy Scarborough [as by Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D.]
• 3 • The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
• 83 • The Shadows on the Wall • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 105 • The Messenger • [Dick Darrel • 3] • (1897) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 163 • Lazarus • (1918) • short story by
  Леонид Андреев^?Leonid Andreyev
  (trans. of
  Елеазар^?Yeleazar
  1906) [as by Leonid Andreyev]
• 197 • The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 241 • The Mass of Shadows • (1908) • short story by Anatole France (trans. of La messe des ombres 1892)
• 253 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 277 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 293 • The Shell of Sense • (1908) • short story by Olivia Howard Dunbar
• 313 • The Woman at Seven Brothers • (1917) • short story by Wilbur Daniel Steele
• 347 • At the Gate • (1917) • short story by Myla Jo Closser
• 359 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 387 • The Haunted Orchard • (1912) • short story by Richard Le Gallienne
• 401 • The Bowmen • (1914) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 409 • A Ghost • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Apparition 1883)