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2. H. Russell Wakefield - Wikipedia

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   Wakefield's ghost stories were published in several collections during the course of his long writing career: They Return at Evening (1928), Old Man's Beard: Fifteen Disturbing Tales (1929), Imagine a Man in a Box (1931), Ghost Stories (1932), A Ghostly Company (1935), The Clock Strikes Twelve: Tales of the Supernatural (1940), and Strayers from Sheol (1961).

3. The Poor Clare (short story) - Wikipedia

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   The Poor Clare. The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell. First serialised in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular magazine Household Words, [1] The Poor Clare is a gothic ghost story [2] about a young woman unwittingly cursed by her own grandmother.

4. The Canterville Ghost - Wikipedia

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   Print (hardback & paperback) " The Canterville Ghost" is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. [1] The story is about an American family who moved to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman ...

5. The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories - Wikipedia

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   Stories. The Travelling Bag (Feb 16th 2016 by Long Barn Books) - In a club in St James's a psychic detective recounts a startling case in the actual building. Lady Webb believes that her medical scientist husband's death is more sinister. She brings his long-used travelling bag to the detective who concentrates on it, and finds the truth about ...

6. The Signal-Man - Wikipedia

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   The Signal-Man. "The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him.

7. Oliver Onions - Wikipedia

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   2. George Oliver Onions[1] (13 November 1873 – 9 April 1961), who published under the name Oliver Onions, was an English writer of short stories and novels. He wrote in various genres, but is perhaps best remembered for his ghost stories, notably the collection Widdershins and the widely anthologized novella "The Beckoning Fair One".