Theophile Gautier

GREAT
SHORT STORIES

Edited by William Patten

A NEW COLLECTION
OF FAMOUS EXAMPLES
FROM THE LITERATURES
OF FRANCE,
ENGLAND AND AMERICA

VOLUME II

GHOST
STORIES

P. F. COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1906
BY P. F. COLLIER & SON

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[LA MORTE AMOREUSE] By Theophile Gautier

[THE RED ROOM] By H. G. Wells

[THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW] By Rudyard Kipling

[THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF] By A. T. Quiller-Couch

[THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN] By Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton

[THE DREAM-WOMAN] By Wilkie Collins

[GREEN BRANCHES] By Fiona Macleod

[A BEWITCHED SHIP] By W. Clark Russell

[THE SIGNAL-MAN] By Charles Dickens

[THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS] By Amelia B. Edwards

[OUR LAST WALK] By Hugh Conway

[THRAWN JANET] By Robert Louis Stevenson

[A CHRISTMAS CAROL] By Charles Dickens

[THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM] By Washington Irving

[THE MYSTERIOUS SKETCH] By Erckmann-Chatrian

[MR. HIGGINBOTHAM'S CATASTROPHE] By Nathaniel Hawthorne

[THE WHITE OLD MAID] By Nathaniel Hawthorne

[WANDERING WILLIE'S TALE] By Sir Walter Scott