- Publication: Humorous Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 359294
- Editor: Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D.
- Date: 1921-00-00
- Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Price: $3.50?$: US dollar
- Pages: xviii+431
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Webpages: archive.org
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Notes:
- Data from Internet Archive scan
- Year from title page
- Has a library stamp dates "May 31 1921" so published before then
- Price from Tuck
- "The Mummy's Foot" was "Translated for this volume by Sara Goldman".
- Internet Archive scan is missing the cover
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External IDs:
- Bleiler Supernatural: 1447
- OCLC/WorldCat: 1376917
- Reginald-1: 12748
Anthology Title:
Humorous Ghost Stories • anthology by Dorothy Scarborough [as by Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D.]
Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)
- vii • The Humorous Ghost: Introduction • essay by Dorothy Scarborough [as by Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D.]
- 3 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
- 51 • The Ghost-Extinguisher • (1905) • short story by Gelett Burgess
- 69 • "Dey Ain't No Ghosts" • (1913) • short story by Ellis Parker Butler
- 89 • The Transferred Ghost • (1882) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
- 109 • The Mummy's Foot • short story by Théophile Gautier?Theophile Gautier(trans. of Le pied de momie 1840)
- 129 • The Rival Ghosts • (1884) • novelette by Brander Matthews
- 159 • The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall • (1891) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
- 175 • Back from That Bourne • (unknown) • short fiction by Anonymous
- 187 • The Ghost-Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
- 205 • The Transplanted Ghost • (1911) • short fiction by Wallace Irwin
- 229 • The Last Ghost in Harmony • (1907) • short fiction by Nelson Lloyd
- 247 • The Ghost of Miser Brimpson • (1910) • short fiction by Eden Phillpotts
- 275 • The Haunted Photograph • (1909) • short story by Ruth McEnery Stuart
- 295 • The Ghost That Got the Button • (1913) • short story by Will Adams
- 315 • The Specter Bridegroom: A Traveler's Tale • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Spectre Bridegroom 1819)
- 341 • The Specter of Tappington • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • novelette by Richard Harris Barham (variant of The Spectre of Tappington 1837) [as by Richard Barham]
- 385 • In the Barn • (1920) • short fiction by Burges Johnson
- 403 • A Shady Plot • short fiction by Elsie Brown
- 425 • The Lady and the Ghost • (1903) • short fiction by Rose Cecil O'Neill
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OCLC/Worldcat | Verified | Bluesman | 2017-01-13 14:50:28 |
Reginald1 | Verified | Bluesman | 2017-01-13 14:50:28 |
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Tuck | Verified | Bluesman | 2017-01-13 14:50:28 |