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Watch your step. Be careful what you do. Ghosts are everywhere. In houses new and old. In lonely walks and grim gatherings. Underneath the wallpaper. Riding through the night.These are some of the spookiest ghost stories ever written, from authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis... read more

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First Sentence edit see section history

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.

Table of Contents edit see section history

The Empty House
The Monkey's Paw
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Masque of the Red Death
The Judge's House
A Ghost Story
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
The Story of Clifford House

Series & Lists edit see section history

This book is in Scholastic Classics. (publisher series)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Christopher Krovatin (Editor)

Other Contributors:

  1. Bram Stoker (Author) - The Judge's House still gives me the creeps. I read it at night and had to keep checking the corners to make sure they were empty. Stoker's descriptions conjured distinct mental images that remained long after I finished reading the story.
  2. Edgar Allan Poe (Author) - The Masque of the Red Death
  3. Henry James (Author) - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
  4. Washington Irving (Author) - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  5. Algernon Blackwood (Author) - The Empty House
  6. W. W. Jacobs (Author) - The Monkey's Paw
  7. Jerome K. Jerome (Author) - A Ghost Story
  8. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Author) - The Yellow Wallpaper

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Scholastic
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 978-0439574266
Page Count: 192

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Classic horror stories.

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