Humorous Ghost Stories

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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