Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Various and Dorothy Scarborough (1878 - 1935)

An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of modern ghosts, as well as to show the art of individual stories."


Sure to please the love of the supernatural in all of us! (summary by J. M. Smallheer)

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Introduction: The Imperishable Ghost J. M. Smallheer
00:19:22
Play 01 The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, part 1 Ken Crooker
00:41:02
Play 02 The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, part 2 Ken Crooker
00:44:10
Play 03 The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, part 3 Ken Crooker
00:39:56
Play 04 The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Jc Guan
00:27:16
Play 05 The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers Marian Brown
01:13:16
Play 06 Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev Kathy Jacobs
00:41:42
Play 07 The Beast with Five Fingers by W. F. Harvey, Part 1 Jc Guan
00:27:50
Play 08 The Beast with Five Fingers by W. F. Harvey, Part 2 Jc Guan
00:32:01
Play 09 The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France Sage Tyrtle
00:13:18
Play 10 What Was It? by Fitz-James O-Brien Igor Teaforay
00:39:23
Play 11 The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce Matthew Howell
00:19:35
Play 12 The Shell of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar Sarah Jennings
00:26:08
Play 13 The Woman at Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel Steele Anna Simon
00:46:04
Play 14 At the Gate by Myla Jo Closser Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:17:14
Play 15 Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe Kelly Elizabeth
00:35:24
Play 16 The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne Sibella Denton
00:18:20
Play 17 The Bowmen by Arthur Machen Sibella Denton
00:07:49
Play 18 A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant Sibella Denton
00:15:05