• Publication: Great Ghost Stories of the World: The Haunted OmnibusPublication Record # 396663
• Editor: Alexander Laing
• Date: 1939-00-00
• Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.
• Price:
  $1.79^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xvi+848
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Price from Tuck Each story is preceded by an introduction credited to "Editor" There are numerous epigrams by various authors throughout the book.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 39-17426
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1803147
  • Reginald-1: 08538A

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• v • Acknowledgments (The Haunted Omnibus) • (1937) • essay by Alexander Laing
• vii • Foreword (The Haunted Omnibus) • (1937) • essay by Alexander Laing
• 3 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 11 • The Half Pint Flask • short story by DuBose Heyward (variant of The Half-Pint Flask 1927)
• 29 • The Brahman, the Thief and the Ghost • (1937) • short fiction by uncredited (trans. of The Brahman, the Thief and the Ghost unknown)
• 33 • The Treasure of Abbot Thomas • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 55 • The Yellow Wall Paper • (1937) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 75 • The King of the World • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 83 • Perez • (1922) • short story by W. L. George
• 99 • The Wendigo • (1910) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
• 149 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 157 • The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 189 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 203 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1910) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 229 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
• 237 • The White People • (1904) • novelette by Arthur Machen
• 277 • Concerning Phantoms • (1937) • short story by Pliny the Younger (trans. of Letter to Sura unknown)
• 281 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 301 • The Story of Ming-Y • (1887) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 315 • The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 343 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 355 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair
• 379 • The Second Kalandar's Tale • (unknown) • novelette by uncredited
• 407 • Full Fathom Five • (1929) • short story by Alexander Woollcott
• 413 • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 425 • The Ghost Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)
• 437 • William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
• 459 • The Feather Cloak of Hawaii • (1928) • short story by Johannes C. Andersen
• 465 • The Gentleman from America • (1924) • short story by Michael Arlen
• 487 • The Story of Glam • (1937) • short fiction by uncredited
• 499 • The Ghosts of Wulakai • (1937) • short story by Owen Lattimore
• 509 • Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• 533 • A Man with Two Lives • [Soldier-Folk] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 537 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 543 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 555 • The Haunted Hotel • (1878) • novel by Wilkie Collins
• 717 • Clorinda Walks in Heaven • (1922) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 725 • The Grendel Episode • (1937) • short fiction by uncredited
• 749 • Green Thoughts • (1931) • short story by John Collier
• 769 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 777 • A Visitor from Down Under • (1926) • short story by L. P. Hartley
• 797 • The Foghorn • (1933) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
• 809 • The Cherry Tree • (1922) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 815 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton