• Publication: Humorous Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 359294
• Editor: Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D.
• Date: 1921-00-00
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Price:
  $3.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xviii+431
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Webpages: archive.org
• 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
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1447
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1376917
  • Reginald-1: 12748

Contents (view Concise 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