Deep in the heart of every human being, no matter how rational or skeptical, there lurks a fascination for the weird and occult. Disbelief does not lay ghosts, nor do the tests of science exorcise them. Stairs creak in the dark with the tread of unseen visitors; cemeteries send up midnight apparitions; and headless horsemen ride in the moonlight.

In this collection of Famous Ghost Stories, Bennett Cerf has included such classics of the supernatural as "The Beckoning Fair One," "The Willows," "The Supper at Elsinore" and "The Phantom Rickshaw."

Contents:

• Introductory Note by Bennett Cerf
• The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
• The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling
• The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
• The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews
• The Man Who Went too Far by E. F. Benson
• The Mezzotint by M. R. James
• The Open Window by "Saki"
• The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions
• On the Brighton Road by Richard Middleton
• The Considerate Hosts by Thorp McClusky
• August Heat by W. F. Harvey
• The Return of Andrew Bentley by A. W. Derleth and Mark Schorer
• The Supper at Elsinore by Isak Dinesen
• The Current Crop of Ghost Stories by Bennett Cerf