Classic Ghost Stories, Various Authors, Barnes Noble Collectible, New

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2023. Brand new. In Publisher's shrinkwrap. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Bound in bonded leather with decorated endpapers and a sewn-in satin bookmark. 816 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.

“Classic Ghost Stories” is a rich collection of tales of ghosts and hauntings with 36 stories published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book's distinguished lineup of writers includes Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, William Hope Hodgson, Vernon Lee, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, H. G. Wells, and others. Its selections include some of the finest ghost stories ever published, among them the short novels "The Lost Stradivarius" by J. Meade Falkner, and "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James.