E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Karina Aleksandrova, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team FAMOUS MODERN GHOST STORIES SELECTED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, Ph.D. DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, Ph.D. LECTURER IN ENGLISH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN MODERN ENGLISH FICTION, FUGITIVE VERSES, FROM A SOUTHERN PORCH, ETC. COMPILER OF HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1921 Printed in the United States of America To ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, Litt. D. Professor of English, Columbia University who guided my earlier studies in the supernatural CONTENTS Introduction: The Imperishable Ghost The Willows By Algernon Blackwood By Algernon Blackwood The Shadows on the Wall By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Messenger By Robert W. Chambers By Robert W. Chambers Lazarus By Leonid Andreyev
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