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Classics (All Free -- No Registration Needed)

	John Kendrick Bangs - Thurlow’s Ghost Story, The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
	S. Baring-Gould - Little Joe Gander, Glámr, The Leaden Ring, The Mother of Pansies
	Gustavo Adolfo Becquer - Maese Pérez, the Organist
	A. C. Benson - The Tomb of Heiri
	E. F. Benson - How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
	R. H. Benson - “Consolatrix Afflictorum”, Over the Gateway
	J. D. Beresford - The Empty Theatre, Force Majeure, The Late Occupier, The Night of Creation
	Algernon Blackwood - Confession, The Dance of Death, Entrance and Exit, The Empty House, A Haunted Island, The House of the Past, The Lost Valley, May Day Eve, Old Clothes, The Olive, The Other Wing, Transition, The Whisperers
	Christopher Blayre - The Book, The Purple Sapphire, The Thing That Smelt
	Valery Bryusov - In the Mirror
	John Buchan - The Watcher by the Threshold
	Ellis Parker Butler - “Dey Ain’t No Ghosts”
	Bernard Capes - The Green Bottle, Poor Lucy Rivers, A Queer Cicerone
	Charles Collins - The Compensation House
	Ralph Adams Cram - Sister Maddelena, The White Villa
	F. Marion Crawford - The Upper Berth
	Guy De Maupassant - From the Tomb, A Ghost, The Horla, “The Terror”
	Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
	Dick Donovan - The Doomed Man
	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Bully of Brocas Court, “De Profundis”, The Silver Mirror
	Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach, The Story of Salome, Was it an Illusion?
	Richard Garnett - Alexander the Ratcatcher
	R. Murray Gilchrist- The Return
	Ellen Glasgow - The Past
	Mrs. Richard S. Greenough - Domitia, Ombra
	Lafcadio Hearn - Nightmare-Touch, The Reconciliation, The Story of Ming-Y, The Tale of the Porcelain-God
	H. Rider Haggard - Only a Dream
	Hildegarde Hawthorne - Unawares
	William Hope Hodgson - The Horse of the Invisible, The Whistling Room
	Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
	Inez Haynes Irwin - The Sixth Canvasser
	W. W. Jacobs - The Three Sisters
	Henry James - Maud-Evelyn, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
	M. R. James - Lost Hearts, Number 13, ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’
	Burton Kline - The Caller in the Night
	C. W. Leadbeater - The Major’s Promise
	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Doctor Feversham’s Story, The Spirit’s Whisper
	Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) - Oke of Okehurst, A Wicked Voice, Winthrop’s Adventure
	Maurice Level - Who?
	Jack London - Planchette
	Fiona Macleod - The Sin-Eater
	Richard Marsh - A Set of Chessmen Tom Ossington's Ghost. Chapters 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20
	Sutherland Menzies - Hugues, the Wer-Wolf
	Richard Middleton - Children of the Moon
	A. B. Mitford - The Ghost of Sakura
	Dinah M. Mulock - M. Anastasius
	Edith Nesbit - The Shadow
	Fitz-James O’Brien - A Dead Secret, What Was It?
	Elliott O’Donnell - Glamis Castle, The Grey Piper, The Top Attic
	Mrs. Oliphant - The Open Door, The Portrait
	Oliver Onions - The Cigarette Case, The Rocker
	Vincent O'Sullivan - The Interval, When I Was Dead
	Barry Pain - This Is All, The Undying Thing
	Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - The Day of My Death, The Gates Ajar, Since I Died
	Mrs. Campbell Praed - The Insane Root
	Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - A Blue Pantomime, The Roll-Call of the Reef
	Lennox Robinson - The Face
	Sir Walter Scott - The Tale of the Mysterious Mirror, The Tapestried Chamber
	Dora Sigerson Shorter - All Souls’ Eve, Priscilla, The Strange Voice, The Twin Brothers
	P’ou Song-lin - The Spirit of the River
	Bram Stoker - The Secret of the Growing Gold
	E. G. Swain - The Kirk Spook
	Ivan Turgenev - Clara Mílitch, Spirits
	Unknown -  The Mountain of Spirits
	Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost
	Sarah Wilkinson - The Spectre
	W. B. Yeats - Hanrahan’s Vision

~ More Ghost Stories ~

	J. Y. Akerman - The Miniature
	Arnold M. Anderson - Ghost of Buckstown Inn
	Anonymous - The Burglar’s Ghost, The Ghost in the Bank of England, The Ghost of the Count, The Ghost of Washington, The Old Tower of Frankenstein, The Parlor-Car Ghost, The Phantom Hag, A Phantom Toe, The Phantom Woman, The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin, The Spectre Bride, The Spectre Mother, The Strange Guests, An Unbidden Guest
	F. Anstey - The Wraith of Barnjum
	Louisa Baldwin - How He Left the Hotel
	John Kendrick Bangs - Carleton Barker, First And Second, The Exorcism That Failed, The Ghost Club, The Mystery of Barney O’Rourke, The Spectre Cook of Bangletop
	Isabella Banks - Haunted! (a poem)
	S. Baring-Gould - Black Ram, The “Bold Venture”, Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story, The Merewigs
	Arlo Bates - The Intoxicated Ghost
	A. C. Benson - The Closed Window, The Hill of Trouble, The Red Camp
	Robert H. Benson - The Bridge Over the Stream, Father Macclesfield’s Tale
	Maurice Baring - The Shadow of a Midnight
	S. Baring-Gould - A Professional Secret
	Ambrose Bierce - Beyond the Wall, Charles Ashmore's Trail, A Cold Greeting, A Psychological Shipwreck
	Algernon Blackwood - The Little Beggar, The Old Man of Visions
	Helena P. Blavatsky - Carlton’s Drive, The Cave of the Echoes
	Gambier Bolton - Ghosts in Solid Form
	Guy Boothby - A Strange Goldfield
	M. E. Bramston - A Closed Door
	A. Le Braz - Breton Notions and Sayings Concerning Death and the Dead, The Cradle, The Dancing Peas, A Dead Priest’s Mass, A Dying Man Administered by a Dead Priest, The Five Drowned Sailors, The Ghost of the Old Spinner, The “Gwerz” or Ballad of Dom Jean Derrien, The Hand upon the Door, The Midsummer “Tantad” or Bonfire, A Night in a Crypt, The Night-Watch, The Oarsmen, The Ox’s Warning, The Pilgrimage of Marie Sigorel, Watchers Beside a Departed Priest, The Watching of Lôn, The Miscreant, The White Inn and the Red Room, The Wedding Ring, Weep Not The Departed, The Winding Sheet of Marie Jeanne, The Woman Pursued by Two Dogs, “Yannic-ann-ôd”
	Alice Brown - There and Here
	Charles Brockden Brown - A Lesson on Concealment
	Valery Brussof - Eluli, Son of Eluli
	Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Monos and Daimonos
	A. M. Burrage - The Recurring Tragedy
	Bernard Capes - William Tyrwhitt’s “Copy”
	Hereward Carrington - The Phantom Armies Seen in France
	Willa Cather - The Affair at Grover Station
	Robert W. Chambers - A Pleasant Evening
	Christabel Coleridge - Alice and Alicia
	Lacy Collison-Morley - Necromancy, The Power of the Dead to Return to Earth, Visions of the Dead in Sleep, Warning Apparitions
	Florence Coombe - Savagery Among the Black Islands.
	A. E. Coppard - Clorinda Walks in Heaven
	F. Marion Crawford - By the Waters of Paradise
	Catherine Crowe - Round the Fire
	C. D. - Grand-Dame’s Ghost Story
	Q. E. D. - Fight With A Ghost
	Andrew Jackson Davis - The Portal of the Unknown
	Rev. Lal Behari Day - The Ghost-Brahman, A Ghostly Wife
	Daniel Defoe - The Ghost in All the Rooms
	Charles Dickens - The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, The Signal-Man, -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Chapters 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, 21-22
	Dick Donovan - A Night of Horror
	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Playing With Fire
	E. M. Forster - The Celestial Omnibus
	Baron de la Motte Fouqué - Sir Huldbrand’s Wife
	Lettice Galbraith - The Trainer’s Ghost
	John Galt - The Black Ferry
	Theo Gift - Dog or Demon?
	Ellen Glasgow - The Shadowy Third
	A. Goodrich-Freer - A Dead Man’s Evidence
	Sir Arthur Gray - The Everlasting Club
	James Norman Hall - From the Faery Lands
	.J. B. Harris-Burland - Lord Beden’s Motor
	Franz Hartmann - An Authenticated Vampire Story
	William Harvey - Across the Moors
	John Harwood - Horror: A True Tale, The Underground Ghost
	Julian Hawthorne - My Friend Paton
	Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Battle-Omen, The Ghost of Dr. Harris, Graves and Goblins, The Gray Champion, Old Esther Dudley The White Old Maid
	Lafcadio Hearn - A Ghost, Of a Promise Kept, The Screen-Maiden
	James Hogg - Mary Burnet, Smith Cracks, &c., Some Terrible Letters From Scotland, The Souters of Selkirk, Tibby Hyslop’s Dream, and the Sequel
	Tom Hood - The Shadow of a Shade
	Leigh Hunt - A Tale for a Chimney Corner
	Washington Irving - The Adventure of My Aunt, The Adventure of My Grandfather, Governor Manco and the Soldier, Guests from Gibbet Island
	Sir T. G. Jackson - The Lady of Rosemount, Pepina
	W. W. Jacobs - “Choice Spirits”, Jerry Bundler, Keeping Up Appearances, Over the Side, Sam’s Ghost, Three at Table, The Vigil
	Jerome K. Jerome - The Faithful Ghost, The Ghost of the Blue Chamber.
	Sargent Kayme - The Spirit of Mt. Apo
	Leonard Kip - The Ghosts at Grantley
	Rudyard Kipling - At the End of the Passage, By Word of Mouth
	Bessie Kyffin-Taylor - “Sylvia”
	Francis Lathorn - The Water Spectre
	C. W. Leadbeater - Saved by a Ghost
	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The Child That Went With the Fairies, Ghost Stories of Chapelizod, Mr. Justice Harbottle, Stories of Lough Guir
	P. H. Villiers de L’isle Adam - The Desire to be a Man
	Richard Marsh - Pourquoipas
	Brander Matthews - The Rival Ghosts
	Guy De Maupassant - My Twenty-Five Days
	Jessie Adelaide Middleton - The Bloody Wynd, At a Boer Farm, The Cathedral Ghost at Gloucester, The Demon of Stackpole Court, At the Door, The Dream House, The Echo of a Crime, The Ghost in the Argyle Rooms, The Ghost in the Cedar Avenue, The Ghost at Mannington Hall, The Ghost in Regent’s Park, The Ghost That Revealed a Murder, The Girl in the Sealskin Coat, The Grandfather’s Clock, The Haymarket Theatre Ghost, The Little White Dog, A Strange Experience, Stranger Than Fiction, The Two Brothers, The Vanishing Lady, The Wicked Lady Ferrers, The White Bird..
	Richard Middleton - On the Brighton Road, The Ghost  Ship, The Passing of Edward, Shepherd’s Boy
	Thomas Street Millington - No Living Voice
	Edmund Mitchell - The Phantom of the Lake
	A. B. Mitford - Tsunémasa
	Mrs. Molesworth - At the Dip of the Road
	Dinah M. Mulock - The Last House in C— Street
	Thomas Nelson - The Spectre in the Cart
	Amyas Northcote - The Downs, The House in the Wood, The Late Earl of D, The Picture
	Fitz-James O’Brien - The Pot of Tulips
	William D. O’Conner - The Ghost
	Elliott O’Donnell - Apparitions of Dogs, Birds and the Unknown, Bulls, Cows, Pigs, Etc, Death Warnings and Family Ghosts, The Dressing-Room, Horses and the Unknown, Inhabitants of the Jungle, Occult Hooligans, Sylvan Horrors, Wild Animals and the Unknown
	Oliver Onions - Hic Jacet, Rooum
	H. E. Orcutt - The Empire of the Invisibles
	Vincent O'Sullivan - The Burned House
	Georgia Wood Pangborn - The Substitute
	H. Pease - In the Blackfriars Wynd, Castle Ichabod, In the Cliff Land of the Dane, The Cock-Crow, The Cry of the Peacock, The Doppel-Ganger, Elder ‘Machiavelli-er’, In My Lady’s Bedchamber, By Peden’s Cleuch, Repentance Tower, By the Shrine of Saint Cuthbert
	Elia W. Peattie - Their Dear Little Ghost, A Grammatical Ghost, From the Loom of the Dead, On the Northern Ice, The Piano Next Door, The Shape of Fear, A Spectral Collie, Story of the Vanishing Patient
	Max Pemberton - Golden Ashes
	Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Kentucky’s Ghost
	Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - “Doubles” and Quits
	Rina Ramsay - Resurgam
	Hugh Hastings Romilly - A Christmas Ghost on Rotuma
	Mark Rutherford (William Hale White) - A Mysterious Portrait
	Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile - The Mysterious Horseman
	Olive Schreiner - In a Far-Off World
	St. John B. Seymour - The Supernormal: Experiences
	May Sinclair - The Token
	Wm. T. Stead- Photographing Invisible Beings
	Robert Louis Stevenson - The Isle of Voices
	Frank R. Stockton - The Bishop’s Ghost and the Printer’s Baby, The Great Staircase at Landover Hall, The Transferred Ghost
	P‘u Sung-ling - Chou K’o-Ch’ang and His Ghost, The Clay Image, The Cloth Merchant, Dishonesty Punished, Examination for the Post of Guardian Angel, The Fisherman and His Friend, The Faithless Widow, The Flower Nymphs, The Lost Brother, The Marriage of the Virgin Goddess, A Supernatural Wife
	Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Ghost in the Mill
	E. G. Swain - The Place of Safety
	Ada Trevanion - A Ghost Story
	Mark Twain - A Ghost Story
	Unknown - Cousin Elof’s Dream
	H. G. Wells - The Inexperienced Ghost
	Edith Wharton - Afterward, The Fulness of Life, Kerfol, The Triumph of the Night
	William J. Wintle - The Black Cat, Father Thornton’s Visitor, The Footsteps on the Stairs, The Ghost at the “Blue Dragon”
	Mrs Henry Wood - The Ghost, Reality or Delusion?

Classics (All Free -- No Registration Needed)

	Pedro Antonio De Alarcón - The Tall Woman
	Louisa May Alcott - The Abbot’s Ghost
	Grant Allen - Pallinghurst Barrow, Wolverden Tower
	Anonymous - The Dead Woman’s Photograph, Earl Beardie’s Game at Cards, The Ghost of a Live Man, A Misfit Ghost, Sandy’s Ghost, A Tale of a Gas-Light Ghost
	F. Anstey - The Curse of the Catafalques
	Gertrude Atherton - The Striding Place
	Louisa Baldwin - The Real and the Counterfeit
	John Kendrick Bangs - The Dampmere Mystery, Ghosts That Have Haunted Me, The Literary Remains of Thomas Bragdon, The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa
	S. Baring-Gould - Aunt Joanna, A Happy Release, H.P., Jean Bouchon, On the Leads, McAlister, Mustapha, The 9.30 Up-Train, Pomps and Vanities, The Red-Haired Girl, The White Flag
	Elsa Barker - The Sylph and the Father
	E. F. Benson - The Bus-Conductor, The China Bowl, The Confession of Charles Linkworth, The Gardener, Gavon’s Eve, The House with the Brick-Kiln, In the Tube, The Other Bed, Outside the Door, The Passenger
	R. H. Benson- The Watcher
	Katherine Bickfoed - Joseph: A Story
	Ambrose Bierce - A Baby Tramp, The Death of Halpin Frayser, A Fruitless Assignment, The Night-Doings at "Deadman's", Present at a Hanging, The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch, The Spook House, The Stranger, Three and One are One, A Wireless Message
	William Black - A Hallowe’en Wraith
	Algernon Blackwood - The Attic, A Case of Eavesdropping, The Deferred Appointment, Keeping His Promise, The Listener, The Occupant of the Room, The Return, The Second Generation, The Terror of the Twins, Running Wolf, Wayfarers, The Woman’s Ghost Story
	Mary E. Braddon - At Chrighton Abbey, The Cold Embrace, Eveline’s Visitant, John Granger
	A. Le Braz - The Eve of All Souls and a Popular Hymn, The Oarsmen, The Open Door, A Very Precious Stone, The Shadow in the Water, The Story of a Grave-Digger, A Soul Seen as an Insect, A Soul Seen as a White Mouse
	Valery Brussof - Protection
	A. M. Burrage - Warning Whispers
	George Washington Cable - Jean-Ah Poquelin
	Bernard Capes - An Eddy on the Floor, A Ghost-Child, The Marble Hands, The Widow’s Clock, The Vanishing House, A Voice from the Pit
	Willa Cather - Consequences, “The Fear that Walks by Noonday”
	Robert W. Chambers - The Bridal Pair, The Demoiselle d’Ys, The Golden Pool, Out of the Depths
	Emma B. Cobb - What Did Miss Darrington See?
	Wilkie Collins - John Jago’s Ghost, The Last Stage Coachman, Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
	Lacy Collison-Morley - The Belief in Ghosts in Greece and Rome, Stories of Haunting
	Joseph Conrad - The Black Mate, The Idiots
	A. E. Coppard - Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
	Frank Cowper - Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk
	Catherine Crowe - The Dutch Officer’s Story, The Garde Chasse, The Italian’s Story
	Rev. Lal Behari Day - The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Being Bagged,
	Walter de la Mare - The Return
	Guy De Maupassant - The Apparition, Ghosts
	Daniel Defoe - The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
	Charles Dickens - A Christmas Tree, The Ghost in Master B.’s Room, The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle, To be Taken with a Grain of Salt, Telling Winter Stories
	Dick Donovan - A Ghost from the Sea