![]() "TheSpectral Ship" leaves an indelible tang of horror. ![]() The Spectral Ship (1828)Wilhelm Hauff died in his mid-twenties, yet still showed early promise that he could have been one of the all time great supernatural writers. ![]() The Old Maid in the Winding Sheet (1837)Nathaniel Hawthorne makes his only appearance with a horror tale that is superbly written. ![]() Adventure of the German Student (1824)Washington Irving is best known for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but the"Adventure of the German Student" is as compact a fright as one will find in a little ghost story. The Tapestried Chamber (1827)Sir Walter Scott was a leading proponent of supernatural tales in Europe.The Tapestried Chamber is the second oldest scary story in the anthology and contains moments of sheer terror. As he has done with a number of other books, Andrew Barger has added his scholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds,annotations, author photos and a foreword titled "All Ghosts Are Gray."Buy PHANTASMAL: THE BEST GHOST STORIES 1800-1849 tonight and be ready to be scared. ![]() Ghost short stories became very popular in the first half of the nineteenth century and this collection by Andrew Barger, award-winning author of COFFEE WITH POE: A NOVEL OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S LIFE and BEST GHOST SHORT STORIES 1850-1899: A PHANTASMAL GHOST ANTHOLOGY, contains the very scariest of them all. ![]()
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