This is an omnibus collection of ghost and horror stories. As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves. The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis StevensonThe Signal-Man by Charles Dickens August Heat by W. F. HarveyThe Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” by M. R. JamesThe Phantom Coach by Amelia EdwardsThe Horla by Guy de MaupassantAn Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose BierceSchalken the Painter by Sheridan Le FanuThe Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe