Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

Summary

An anthology of twenty-five ghost stories gathered by W. Bob Holland in the 1920s, mixing famous names with half-forgotten ones. A reader finds short haunted-house and apparition tales for the evening. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

Chapters (25)

1. 1. The Black Cat
2. 2. The Flayed Hand
3. 3. The Vengeance of a Tree
4. 4. The Parlor-Car Ghost
5. 5. Ghost of Buckstown Inn
6. 6. The Burglar’s Ghost
7. 7. A Phantom Toe
8. 8. Mrs. Davenport’s Ghost
9. 9. The Phantom Woman
10. 10. The Phantom Hag
11. 11. From the Tomb
12. 12. Sandy’s Ghost
13. 13. The Ghosts of Red Creek
14. 14. The Spectre Bride
15. 15. How He Caught the Ghost
16. 16. Grand-Dame’s Ghost Story
17. 17. A Fight with a Ghost
18. 18. Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story
19. 19. The Ghost of the Count
20. 20. The Old Mansion
21. 21. A Misfit Ghost
22. 22. An Unbidden Guest
23. 23. The Dead Woman’s Photograph
24. 24. The Ghost of a Live Man
25. 25. The Ghost of Washington