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1Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

By Ralph Adams Cram

A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphere, and throughout it all, a profound appreciation for the haunting beauty of Europe through the eyes of an American architect. Includes The Dead Valley, a story singled out as "memorably potent" by H.P. Lovecraft. <br><em>Black spirits and white - Red spirits and gray - Mingle, mingle, mingle - Ye that mingle may.</em> (Summary by Andrew Gaunce, with excerpt from Shakespeare's Macbeth)

2Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories

By Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, W. F. Harvey, M. R. James, Guy de Maupassant, Pliny the Younger, Katherine Rickford, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Robert Louis Stevenson

'The Listener' First, it was a strange array of cats, then an increasingly mysterious, and then terrifying increase in...happenstances and...appearances... 'Number Thirteen' Unlucky for some this room is...on a visit to a Denmark with an ancient presence... 'The Horla' Yes, I believed, that an invisible being lived beneath my roof. How weak our head is, and how quickly it is terrified and goes astray, we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers. 'The Beast with Five Fingers' With murderous vengeance, the beast pursues the two friends. Will secrecy, intense surveillance and a marked attention to battening down save them? 'Sister Maddalena' Will a trapped and tragic woman finally find peace? 'Thrawn Janet' A lost soul wandering the Scottish moor. Is she misunderstood? Is she ill? Or is she in league with the devil himself? 'The Yellow Cat' A terrifying tale at sea! But what is it about the ship's cat? 'Letter to Sura' Who says ancient Rome can't have ghost stories? - Summary by The Reader