This is an omnibus collection of ghost and horror stories. As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves. 

The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

August Heat by W. F. Harvey

The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs

“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” by M. R. James

The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

The Horla by Guy de Maupassant

An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce

Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe