Selected, with an Introduction by Dorothy Scarborough, this is a collection of 15 short ghost stories. Includes: The Willows By Algernon Blackwood; The Shadows on the Wall By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The Messenger By Robert W. Chambers; Lazarus By Leonid Andreyev; The Beast with Five Fingers By W. F. Harvey;
The Mass of Shadows By Anatole France; What Was It? By Fitz-James O'Brien; The Middle Toe of the Right Foot By Ambrose Bierce; The Shell of Sense By Olivia Howard Dunbar; The Woman at Seven Brothers By Wilbur Daniel Steele; At the Gate By Myla Jo Closser; Ligeia By Edgar Allan Poe; The Haunted Orchard By Richard Le Gallienne; The Bowmen By Arthur Machen; and, A Ghost By Guy de Maupassant.