Fires and the Shadows: A Collection of the Finest Ghost Stories

The authors of the volume are some of the finest writers of this genre, and these are some of their most well-loved tales. In this volume, the authors included are Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, M.R. James. Daniel Defoe, J.S. Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling and Washington Irving.

• Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart Conan Doyle - The Silver Mirror Ambrose Bierce - The Secret of Macarger's Gulch Daniel Defoe - The apparition of Mrs Veal Nathaniel Hawthorne - An Old Woman's Tale M.R. James - Number 13 J.S. Le Fanu - Green tea Sabine Baring-Gould - The Red-Haired Girl Rudyard Kipling - The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes