Great Ghost Stories

. Carroll & Graf Publishers, $14.95 (327pp) ISBN 978-0-7867-1363-9

Great Ghost Stories, a reprint anthology edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes and Stephen Jones, includes a mix of shudder tales by such classic writers in the genre as Ambrose Bierce and J. Sheridan Le Fanu and by such contemporary masters as Ramsey Campbell and Stephen King. In his foreword, horror maven Jones pays tribute to the late Chetwynd-Hayes (1919-2001), ""a prolific and erudite anthologist"" as well as an author of supernatural fiction himself. .

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