Ghosts return for many reasons.
Some come to reveal a secret. Others to avenge a wrong, to keep a promise, or simply because the past refuses to remain buried.
In Twenty-Five Ghost Stories, haunted houses, mysterious apparitions, warnings from the dead, strange coincidences, and inexplicable encounters draw ordinary lives into the supernatural. From Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant to lesser-known voices of the ghost-story tradition, these tales move between terror, melancholy, mystery, and the uncanny.

First published in 1904, this collection brings together twenty-five stories from a literary world fascinated by what might exist just beyond the limits of reason.
Because in these stories, the dead do not always leave quietly.