Great Ghost Stories!
It's Halloween time! Now start recommending some great great ghost stories! What are the spookiest? What are the most memorable? What scared you? What was the most poignant? Let's put our minds...
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Fine, i'll start Here's ten I recommend: The Beckoning Fair One-Oliver Onions The Body Snatcher-Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Line No. 1: The Signal-Man-Charles Dickens The Phantom Coach-Amelia B....
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OK, James, here's an attempt at some of the ones I like best: Most poignant: "They" by Rudyard Kipling Jolliest: "The Ghost Ship" by Richard Middleton Most chilling: "Confession" by Algernon Blackwood...
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Geezermonster wrote:OK, James, here's an attempt at some of the ones I like best: Most poignant: "They" by Rudyard Kipling Jolliest: "The Ghost Ship" by Richard Middleton Most chilling: "Confession"...
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A really good one -- especially if you're an Anglophile -- is "The Roll Call of the Reef" by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
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I guess I sort of ma, when I think about it! Thanks, Geez, i'll look it up!
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"Some Haunted Houses," "The Ways of Ghosts," and "Mysterious Disappearances" are actually multiple mini-stories by Ambrose Bierce given umbrella titles, giving you more spookiness for your buck. "The...
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Aside from those already mentioned Mr. Justice Harbottle The Kit Bag The Inexperienced Ghost (and a couple I can't remember the names of (*@#!^%) And noone's yet mentioned The Turn of the Screw
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Nice choices, guys! M.R. James wrote way too many good ghost stories. I'm working on a massive article now on the 180(!) best and his name is on there several times. The Inexperienced Ghost? H.G....
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Apart from the classics, almost anything by Robert Aickman works for me
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What's the one where the guy steals three diaries? The other two I can't remember take place in New York (I think). One's about an apartment, and the guys are sitting outside smoking something...
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