Collected Ghost Stories Explained

Collected Ghost Stories
Author:Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Cover Artist:Frank Utpatel
Country:United States
Language:English
Genre:Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher:Arkham House
Release Date:1974
Media Type:Print (hardback)
Pages:xii, 189 pp
Isbn:0-87054-065-3

Collected Ghost Stories is a posthumous collection of stories by author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930). It was released in 1974 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,155 copies. The book is the first collection of all of Freeman's supernatural stories.

Contents

Collected Ghost Stories contains the following tales:

  1. "Introduction," by Edward Wagenknecht
  2. "The Shadows on the Wall"
  3. "The Hall Bedroom"
  4. "Luella Miller"
  5. "The Vacant Lot"
  6. "A Far-Away Melody"
  7. "A Symphony in Lavender"
  8. "The Wind in the Rose-Bush"
  9. "A Gentle Ghost"
  10. "The Southwest Chamber"
  11. "The Lost Ghost"
  12. "The Jade Bracelet"

References

. Sheldon Jaffery . The Arkham House Companion . Mercer Island, WA . Starmont House, Inc.. 108 . 1989 . 1-55742-005-X.

. Jack L. Chalker . Mark Owings . The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 . Westminster, MD and Baltimore . Mirage Press, Ltd.. 50 . 1998.

. S.T. Joshi . Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography . Sauk City, WI . Arkham House. 132–133 . 1999 . 0-87054-176-5.