Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Download or read book Famous Modern Ghost Stories written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the type of Indian and eastern Ghosts has been added to this bookEMILY DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, born in Mount Carmel on January 27, 1878, was the youngest child of Mary Adelaide Ellison and John Bledsoe Scarborough. Her father was a Confederate veteran from Louisiana and a successful Texas lawyer and Judge. Her brother, George Moore Scarborough was a successful playwright. Her sister, Martha Douglass, had graduated from Vassar and Baylor and published three books. Dorothy, besides being as an author, was a lecturer, and later a professor.Dorothy Scarborough's books include From a Southern Porch (1919), Impatient Griselda (1927), The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917), The Unfair Sex (serialized, 1925-26), and The Wind (1925). The Wind which was made into a movie in 1927, portrayed negative living conditions of the frontier cattle ranges around Sweetwater. Dorothy also edited three books, Famous Modern Ghost Stories (1921), Humorous Ghost Stories (1921), and Selected Short Stories of Today (1935). Her first book was a collection of her own poetry, Fugitive Verses (1912). Her other literary productions include short stories, book reviews, critical essays, and articles dealing primarily with folklore and other literary topics. Dorothy Scarborough died on November 7, 1935 at her home in New York City and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Waco.This book contains following fearsome and exciting stories by the world renowned authors:1. The Willows- By Algernon Blackwood2. The Shadows On The Wall- By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 3. The Messenger- By Robert W. Chambers 4. Lazarus- By Leonid Andreyev 5. The Beast With Five Fingers- By W. F. Harvey 6. The Mass Of Shadows- By Anatole France 7. What Was It? - By Fitz James O'brien 8. The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot- By Ambrose Bierce9. The Shell Of Sense- By Olivia Howard Dunbar 10. The Woman At Seven Brothers- By Wilbur Daniel Steele 11. At The Gate- By Myla Jo Closser 12. Ligeia- By Edgar Allan Poe 13. The Haunted Orchard- By Richard Le Gallienne 14. The Bowmen- By Arthur Machen 15. A Ghost- By Guy De Maupassant