The Screaming Skull: And Other Great American Ghost Stories

Twelve supernatural tales by American writers. Marion Crawford, "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Consequences" by Willa Cather, "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain, and eight more tales of spirits by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Lucas White, Frank R. Stockton, Henry James, Edith Wharton and more.Table of Contents1 • The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford 38 • Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe 58 • A Ghost Story by Mark Twain 66 • The Ghost of Dr. Harris by Nathaniel Hawthorne 74 • The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White 86 • The Transferred Ghost by Frank R. Stockton 101 • The Real Right Thing by Henry James 118 • The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs 130 • The Eyes by Edith Wharton 154 • The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 170 • The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews 192 • Consequences by Willa Cather