Quote:Let your imagination run free with this collection of 12 positively terrifying supernatural stories, selected as the best ghost stories of all time by Joseph Lewis French. Included in this book:

1. FOREWORD by James H. Hyslop
2. THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton
3. THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF by A. T. Quiller-Couch
4. THE OPEN DOOR by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant
5. THE DESERTED HOUSE by Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
6. THE MYSTERIOUS SKETCH by Erckmann-Chatrian
7. GREEN BRANCHES by Fiona Macleod
8. THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS by Amelia B. Edwards
9. THE WERE-WOLF by H. B. Marryatt
10. THE WITHERED ARM by Thomas Hardy
11. CLARIMONDE by Théophile Gautier
12. THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL by Montague Rhodes James
13. WHAT WAS IT? by Fitz-James O-Brien

Joseph Lewis French (1858-1936) was a novelist, editor, poet and newspaper man. The New York Times noted in 1925 that he may be "the most industrious anthologist of his time." He is known for his popular themed collections, and published over twenty-five books between 1918 and his death in 1936.