"From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties
and things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!"
- a Cornish prayer


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      • Ghost Stories

       MAIN COLLECTION 823.9 B56b
      Best ghost stories of Algernon Blackwood. Selected with an introd. by E. F. Bleiler. New York, Dover Publications [c1973]

      MAIN COLLECTION 823.912 W13b
      The best ghost stories of H. Russell Wakefield / selected and introduced by Richard Dalby. Chicago, IL : Academy Chicago, [1982] c1978.

      MAIN COLLECTION 823.01 J23ca
      Casting the runes, and other ghost stories / M.R. Jame ; edited, with an introduction by Michael Cox. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University

      MAIN COLLECTION 823.89 L52ch
      Chronicles of golden friars / J. S. Le Fanu ; with an introd. by Devendra P. Varma. New York : Arno Press, 1977.

      MAIN COLLECTION 808.83872 C56
      Classic ghost stories / by Charles Dickens and others New York : Dover Publications, 1975.

      MAIN COLLECTION 398.4 M97c
      Coffin Hollow and other ghost tales / Ruth Ann Musick ; with a foreword by William Hugh Jansen ; illustrations by Archie L. Musick. Lexington, Ky. : University of Kentucky Press, c1977. Ghost stories from West Virginia.

      MAIN COLLECTION 813.4 F877co
      Collected ghost stories. With an introd. by Edward Wagenknecht. Sauk City, Wis., Arkham House, 1974. American Ghost stories.

      MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 D445d
      Dwellers in darkness / August Derleth. Sauk City, Wis. : Arkham House, 1976.

      LIBRARY SERV. (CURRIC) Fic Roa
      Encounters with the invisible world : being ten tales of ghosts, witches, & the devil himself in New England / written and illustrated by Marilynne K. Roach. New York : Crowell, c1977.

      MAIN COLLECTION 823.01 M24f
      McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker), 1874-1960. ed. Famous ghost stories. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1971]

      MAIN COLLECTION 398.23 M821g
      Morgan, Fred T., comp. Ghost tales of the Uwharries, by Fred T. Morgan. Illustrated by Virginia Ingram. Winston-Salem, N.C., J. F. Blair [1968]

      MAIN COLLECTION 808.83872 H12gc
      The Ghost's companion : a haunting anthology / edited by Peter Haining. New York : Taplinger Pub. Co., 1976, c1975.

      MAIN COLLECTION 133.1 P93h
      Haints, witches, and boogers : tales from Upper East Tennessee / by Charles Edwin Price ; foreword by Richard Blaustein. Winston-Salem, N.C. : John F. Blair Publisher, c1992.

      MAIN COLLECTION 398.25 Od5m
      The midnight hearse and more ghosts; a second collection of true tales and legends. Arr. by H. Ludlam. [1st U.S. ed.] New York, Taplinger Pub. Co. [1969, c1965]

      MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 L97wo
      Women and ghosts / Alison Lurie. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 1994.

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      Scary Stories

       MAIN COLLECTION 133.3 B41b 1972
      A mysterious spirit, by Charles Bailey Bell. The Bell witch of Tennessee [by] Harriet Parks Miller. Nashville, Tenn., C. Elder, 1972.
      My younger sister and her best friend loved horror stories, movies and such (not me). One night they decided that since I loved to read, I should read the Bell Witch to them. We settled in my bed with the just the lamp on for light. We lived in the county, so all the windows and doors were open and it was dark out. I read for some time and then heard a noise, I froze and then realized it was snoring from my younger sister. Looking around, I discovered that I was the only one awake in this small dim circle of light in a very dark world that seemed to be getting smaller as I watched. I put the book down, left the light on and tried to join my bed mates in slumber. Diane Baird

      Dracula, the original. I read it in the summer -- it's hard to sleep in an un-air-conditioned bedroom with all the windows shut!
      Harriette Gaida
      MAIN COLLECTION 823.89 St6Z W83
      The essential Dracula : including the complete novel by Bram Stoker / written and edited by Leonard Wolf ; notes, bibliography, and filmography revised in collaboration with Roxana Stuart ; illustrations by Christopher Bing. New York : Plume, c1993.

      Some of the scariest books are not ghost stories or horror stories. Try ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute. 823.912 N83o. This is end of the world psychological horror which gave me nightmares for two weeks after I read it 20-some years ago. My parents argued over whether I was ready to read it or not. Mom won. I read it. Dad won. I had nightmares because I read it.
      Sherry Norris

      For anyone with computer phobia, I dare you to read I Have no mouth, and I Must Scream included in the following anthology by Harlan Ellison.
      Ginny Vesper
      MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 El59f
      The fantasies of Harlan Ellison / Harlan Ellison ; with new foreword by Michael Moorcock ; new introd. by Harlan Ellison ; new afterword by Robert Thurston ; [frontispiece photo. of Harlan Ellison by Richard Todd ; Harlequin and Ticktockmon sculpture in bronze by Brett Bather]. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979.

      Do you have a scary story you would like to recommend? Send your suggestions to:
      vvesper@ulibnet.mtsu.edu

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