The popularity of A Christmas Carol excited demand for more tales of ghostly visitation, and the great Victorian storyteller happily obliged. A Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat provides the backdrop for Dickens and his friends -- including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins -- who take turns spinning supernatural yarns. Reprint of a standard edition.
Here's a sample of other books in this Dover category
Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu by J. Sheridan LeFanu Sixteen stories by greatest Victorian master of the chilling tale: "Carmilla" (perhaps the classic vampire thriller), "Green Tea," "The Familiar," "The Haunted Baronet," "Madam Crowl's Ghost," "The Dead Sexton," plus 10 others.
Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce These 23 modern horror stories by American master include "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Damned Thing," and 21 more that will "attract and hold the attention of anyone interested in the horror genre." — SF Booklog.
Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard by Hugh Lamb These 17 rare Victorian-era stories of the macabre include works by Ambrose Bierce, Robert Barr, R. Murray Gilchrist, Mrs. H. H. Riddell, Richard Marsh, and Guy Boothby, plus rediscovered writings by long-neglected Gothic masters.
Great Tales of Terror by S. T. Joshi These 23 chilling tales tell of the returning dead, haunted places, and weird creatures by such masters of the genre as Lafcadio Hearn, Algernon Blackwood, and J. Sheridan LeFanu.
Best Ghost and Horror Stories by Bram Stoker Superb selection of 14 spine-tingling stories by author of Dracula. "The Dualitists" (probably Stoker's most horrifying story), "The Squaw," "The Burial of the Rats," 11 more. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Great Ghost Stories by John Grafton Ten classics by masters of the macabre: Bram Stoker's "The Judge's House," "The Moonlit Road" by Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James's "The Rose Garden," Charles Dickens, and 7 others.
