Great Ghost Stories of the World: The Haunted Omnibus

Garden City, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. Good +/Good. Lynd Ward. 486pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bright light green cloth over boards with the title stamped in yellow on the backstrip. Endpapers heavily darkened; two inscriptions on the front free endpaper, one of which is a contemporary gift inscription. In a dust jacket, backed with tape along the edges and folds, and with several closed tears (one measuring 4") to the surface of the spine and surrounding area of the rear panel. Checklist on Basic Books printed on the reverse.

Contents: "August Heat" (W. F. Harvey); "The Half Pint Flask" (DuBose Heyward); "The Brahman, the Thief, and the Ghost" (The Panchatantra); "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" (M. R. James); "The Yellow Wall Paper" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman); "The King of the World" (A. E. Coppard); "Perez" (W. L. George); "The Wendigo" (Algernon Blackwood); "The Furnished Room" (O'Henry); "The Screaming Skull" (F. Marion Crawford); "The Monkey's Paw" (W. W. Jacobs); "The Horla" (Guy de Maupassant); "Laura" (Saki); "The White People (Arthur Machen); "Concerning Phantoms" (Pliny the Younger); Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson); "The Story of Ming-y" (Lafcadio Hearn); "The Beast with Five Fingers" (W. F. Harvey); "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me" (A. E. Coppard); "Where Their Fire is Not Quenched" (May Sinclair); "The Second Kalandar's Tale" (Arabian Nights); "Full Fathom Five" (Alexander Woollcott); "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (Ambrose Bierce); "The Ghost-Ship" (Richard Middleton); "William Wilson" (Edgar Allan Poe); "The Feather Cloak of Hawaii" (Johannes C. Andersen); "The Gentleman from America" (Michael Arlen). An excellent anthology of classic ghost stories, illustrated by famous wordless novel illustrator Lynd Ward. Originally published as "The Haunted Omnibus" by Farrar & Rinehart in 1937.