CONTENTS Introduction: The Imperishable Ghost The Willows By Algernon Blackwood The Shadows on the Wall By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Messenger By Robert W. Chambers Lazarus By Leonid Andreyev The Beast with Five Fingers By W. F. Harvey The Mass of Shadows By Anatole France What Was It? By Fitz-James O'Brien The Middle Toe of the Right Foot By Ambrose Bierce The Shell of Sense By Olivia Howard Dunbar The Woman at Seven Brothers By Wilbur Daniel Steele At the Gate By Myla Jo Closser Ligeia By Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Orchard By Richard Le Gallienne The Bowmen By Arthur Machen A Ghost By Guy de Maupassant