Humorous Ghost Stories

About this eBook

Author

Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Ghost stories

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26950

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26950

Release Date

October 18, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES — SELECTED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION — BY
2. 2.DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, Ph.D.
3. 3.The Humorous Ghost — INTRODUCTION
4. 4.CONTENTS — HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES — THE CANTERVILLE GHOST — By OSCAR WILDE
5. 5.The Canterville Ghost — By OSCAR WILDE — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — THE GHOST-EXTINGUISHER — By GELETT BURGESS
6. 6.The Ghost-Extinguisher — BY GELETT BURGESS — “DEY AIN'T NO GHOSTS” — By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
7. 7.“Dey Ain't No Ghosts” — By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER — THE TRANSFERRED GHOST — By FRANK R. STOCKTON
8. 8.The Transferred Ghost — By FRANK R. STOCKTON — THE MUMMY'S FOOT — By THÉOPHILE GAUTIER
9. 9.The Mummy's Foot — By THÉOPHILE GAUTIER — THE RIVAL GHOSTS — By BRANDER MATTHEWS
10. 10.The Rival Ghosts — By BRANDER MATTHEWS — THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL — By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
11. 11.The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall — By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS — BACK FROM THAT BOURNE — ANONYMOUS
12. 12.Back from That Bourne — ANONYMOUS — JOHN NEWBEGIN — HIS SUDDEN DEATH — HIS REAPPEARANCE AT POCOCK — HIS DETERMINATION TO REMAIN — A SINGULAR MEMBER OF SOCIETY — AN INTERVIEW WITH A DEAD MAN — IN CONCLUSION — THE GHOST-SHIP — By RICHARD MIDDLETON
13. 13.The Ghost-Ship — By RICHARD MIDDLETON — THE TRANSPLANTED GHOST — A CHRISTMAS STORY BY WALLACE IRWIN
14. 14.The Transplanted Ghost — A CHRISTMAS STORY — By WALLACE IRWIN — THE LAST GHOST IN HARMONY — By NELSON LLOYD
15. 15.The Last Ghost in Harmony — By NELSON LLOYD — THE GHOST OF MISER BRIMPSON — By EDEN PHILLPOTTS
16. 16.The Ghost of Miser Brimpson — By EDEN PHILLPOTTS — I — II — III — FOOTNOTES: — THE HAUNTED PHOTOGRAPH — By RUTH McENERY STUART
17. 17.The Haunted Photograph — By RUTH McENERY STUART — THE GHOST THAT GOT THE BUTTON — By WILL ADAMS
18. 18.The Ghost that Got the Button — By WILL ADAMS — THE SPECTER BRIDEGROOM — By WASHINGTON IRVING
19. 19.The Specter Bridegroom — A Traveler's Tale [2] By WASHINGTON IRVING — FOOTNOTES: — THE SPECTER OF TAPPINGTON — Compiled by RICHARD BARHAM
20. 20.The Specter of Tappington — From The Ingoldsby Legends Compiled by RICHARD BARHAM — IN THE BARN — By BURGES JOHNSON
21. 21.In the Barn — By BURGES JOHNSON — A SHADY PLOT — By ELSIE BROWN
22. 22.A Shady Plot — By ELSIE BROWN
23. 23.THE LADY AND THE GHOST — By ROSE CECIL O'NEILL
24. 24.The Lady and the Ghost — By ROSE CECIL O'NEILL — Transcriber's Notes
25. 25.From — A Southern Porch — By Dorothy Scarborough A Book of Whimsy — G. P. Putnam's Sons — The Kiltartan Poetry Book — Prose Translations from the Irish — By Lady Gregory — G. P. Putnam's Sons

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