(from inside the front flap) This collection presents forty pure ghost stories both old and new by some of the best writers ever assembled, including H.G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Nigel Kneale, Washington Irving, E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl. Many of these tales have never appeared in any other collection and there are several original stories written specifically for this book.

From Dickens' London to the Old West, from modern-day Manhattan to the back streets of the Far East, here are hundreds of hours of ghoulish good reading.