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Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (Dover Literature: Gothic/Horror Short Stories)

Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction)

Penned By Mike Ashley
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Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (Dover Literature: Gothic/Horror Short Stories)

Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction)

Penned By Mike Ashley
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Sixteen spine-tingling tales from the dark side of our nation's literary history include "The Gray Champion" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe, plus fables by Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Mark Twain, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Frank R. Stockton, Parke Godwin, and others.

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Length 300 Pages
Released August 8, 2008
Identifier (ISBN) 6276662
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