• Publication: Famous Ghost Stories by English AuthorsPublication Record # 414080
• Editor: Adam L. Gowans
• Date: 1919-01-00
• Publisher: Gowans & Gray
• Pub. Series: Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library
• Pub. Series #: 2
• Price:
  2/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 225
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: 3rd printing Date from printing history in the 4th printing
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 705
  • LCCN: 37-32782
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 796379672

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 7 • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt • (1865) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 31 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1852) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell
• 47 • The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque • (1910) • short story by Sir Walter Scott (variant of The Tapestried Chamber 1828)
• 65 • The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1905) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [as by Lord Lytton]
• 111 • The Haunted Ships • (1821) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 130 • No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man • (1909) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 146 • The Mysterious Bride • (1830) • short story by James Hogg
• 164 • A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 • (1706) • short story by Daniel Defoe
• 175 • The Bagman's Story • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 192 • Mary Burnet • (1828) • novelette by James Hogg
• 219 • Telling Winter Stories • (unknown) • essay by Charles Dickens