CONTENTS
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Introduction: The Humorous Ghost vii
The Canterville Ghost 3
By Oscar Wilde
The Ghost-Extinguisher 51
By Gelett Burgess
“Dey Ain't No Ghosts” 69
By Ellis Parker Butler
The Transferred Ghost 89
By Frank R. Stockton
The Mummy's Foot 109
By Théophile Gautier
The Rival Ghosts 129
By Brander Matthews
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall 159
By John Kendrick Bangs
Back from that Bourne 175
Anonymous
The Ghost-Ship 187
By Richard Middleton
The Transplanted Ghost 205
By Wallace Irwin
The Last Ghost in Harmony 229
By Nelson Lloyd
The Ghost of Miser Brimpson 247
By Eden Phillpotts
The Haunted Photograph 275
By Ruth McEnery Stuart
The Ghost that Got the Button 295
By Will Adams
The Specter Bridegroom 315
By Washington Irving
The Specter of Tappington 341
Compiled by Richard Barham
In the Barn 385
By Burges Johnson
A Shady Plot 403
By Elsie Brown
The Lady and the Ghost 425
By Rose Cecil O'Neill
HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.
By OSCAR WILDE
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