*Title: The Mystery of the Semi-Detatched by E. Nesbit Date Read: 29 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Stood up by his date, the narrator passes by the house of his sweetheart to find all the lights out and the front door open. Overcome … [Read more...]

*Title: The Shadow of a Midnight by Maurice Baring Date Read: 28 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Civil servant Jameson relates a ghostly tale to his Russian hosts, which occurred during his time at Heidelberg University. Befriending a … [Read more...]

*Title: The Ghost in All the Rooms by Daniel Defoe Date Read: 27 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Due to sudden illness an aristocrat have to leave their summer home leaving a steward and three servants in charge of the place. … [Read more...]

*Title: An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce Date Read: 27 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Recovering from the delirium of fever the narrator of this tale finds himself in a long forgotten graveyard some miles from his home city … [Read more...]

*Title: The Dampmere Mystery by John Kendrick Bangs Date Read: 27 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Dawson, a New York writer, wishing to be alone, takes rental of a little cottage in the village of Dampmere. With only his Chinese … [Read more...]

*Title: Glámr by Sabine Baring-Gould Date Read: 27 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Struggling to find someone to hire (because of the haunted lands around his farm), Icelandic farmer Thorhall employs fearless 'man mountain' Glámr as … [Read more...]

*Title: A Ghost Story by Mark Twain Date Read: 26 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: The narrator takes up residence in a room in an old, unoccupied building in New York opposite the museum. His perception that the place is haunted, … [Read more...]

*Title: Ghosts that Have Haunted Me by John Kendrick Bangs Date Read: 26 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: The narrator, totally at ease with ghosts and haunting, relates a number of encounters that he's had with ghosts. So at ease is … [Read more...]

*Title: In the Confessional by Amelia B. Edwards Date Read: 26 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Recovering from a sorrow in his life, the narrator takes to rambling around Europe. He happens on the idyllic Swiss town of Rheinfelden … [Read more...]

*Title: In Kropsberg Keep by Ralf A. Cram Date Read: 25 October 2008 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Two skeptic Germans Otto and Rupert, travel down to Austria in a kind of anti-ghost hunting trip, in order to disprove the existence of many of … [Read more...]