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Famous Modern Ghost Stories

  • 1921 first published
  • 264 pages
  • 45 editions

Published in 1921, Famous Modern Ghost Stories is a ghost story novel by Dorothy Scarborough, Algernon Blackwood and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman.

36 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 45 editions.

At about 264 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours.

About Famous Modern Ghost Stories

The Willows / Algernon Blackwood The Shadows on the Wall / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Messenger / Robert W. Chambers Lazarus / Leonid Andreyev The Beast with Five Fingers / W.f. Harvey The Mass of Shadows / Anatole France What Was It? / Fitz James O'brien The Middle Toe of the Right Foot / Ambrose Bierce The Shell of Sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar The Woman At Seven Brothers / Wilbur Daniel Steele At the Gate / Myla Jo Closser Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Orchard / Richard le Gallienne The Bowmen / Arthur Machen A Ghost / Guy de Maupassant
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Ghost stories
  • Children's fiction

Quick answers

Who wrote Famous Modern Ghost Stories?

Famous Modern Ghost Stories was written by Dorothy Scarborough, Algernon Blackwood and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and first published in 1921.

What genre is Famous Modern Ghost Stories?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories.

How long is Famous Modern Ghost Stories?

The median edition has 264 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Famous Modern Ghost Stories?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Ghost, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and A Christmas Carol.

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