Still, it would be churlish to grouse too much, given the devil's plenty on offer in "The Big Book of Ghost Stories." Above all, the VanderMeers reserve at least half their book for living authors ...

Get extra credit? One of Edith Wharton’s best ghost stories, “The Looking Glass,” is not in the collection I recommended above, but it is in her book “The World Over.” It’s about an ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. In honor of Halloween, this week's book table find is the new 800+ page Black Lizard anthology, 'The Big Book of Ghost Stories.' Halloween is one of my ...

Need a few ideas? Just read on. ‘The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume 5,’ edited by Christopher Philippo (Valancourt) This latest in an annual series again ...

“I do not believe in ghosts ... books will cling to you long after you’ve put them down. In addition to the novels she’s famous for, Wharton (like Henry James) wrote ghost stories ...