Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others
- ISBN-10
- 0486466027
- ISBN-13
- 9780486466026
- Series
- Great American Ghost Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Author
- Mike Ashley
Description
Sixteen spine-tingling tales from the dark side of our nation's literary history include "The Gray Champion" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe, plus fables by Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Mark Twain, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Frank R. Stockton, Parke Godwin, and others.
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