The Fog Horn/Monsters(2010)

Title and Author

Brief description

90

“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood

A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.

91

“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker

A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.

92a

“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro

A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.

92b

“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit

A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.

93

“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll

A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.

94

“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.

95A

“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.

95B

“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous

A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.

96

“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens

A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.

97A

“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit

A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.

97B

“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft

An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.

98

“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit

A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.

99

“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells

A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.

100

“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton

A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.

101

“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs

A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.

102A

“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain

Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.

102B

“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs

Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.

103

“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs

A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.

104A

“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs

Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.

104B

“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs

A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.

105

“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler

A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.

106

“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet

107A

“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie

A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.

107B

“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne

A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.

108

“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell

A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.

109

“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling

Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.

110A

“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.

110B

“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie

A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”

111

“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy

A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.

112

“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.