New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Emily Dorothy Scarborough compiled these stories and her introduction is titled The Imperishable Ghost. The famous modern short stories in the book are: The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood; The Shadows on the Wall, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The Messenger, by Robert W. Chambers; Lazarus, by Leonid Andreyev; The Beast with Five Fingers, by William Fryer Harvey; The Mass of Shadows, by Anatole France; What Was It?, by Fitz-James O'Brien; The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, by Ambrose Bierce; The Shell of Sense, by Olivia Howard Dunbar; The Woman at Seven Brothers,...

Women on the Verge: American Women's Literature of the Progressive Era presents a scholarly selection of some of the finest examples of Women's Literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, now known as The Progressive Era. Following the Victorian era, and on the heels of the twilight of the dominance of New England writers in American literature, Progressive era American women authors were starting to find their literary voices, unique from the rest of the world. Edited by Laura Bonds and Shawn Conners, and with cover art by Joan Turrell based on her series "Beyond the Yellow...

Weird tales from the heartland of New England
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was a highly regarded and prominent 19th century American author. She began writing as a teenager to assist in supporting her family, and her pivotal career moment came when she became secretary to Oliver Wendall Holmes who, among other achievements, was acclaimed as one of the most outstanding American poets of his generation. Freeman writing abilities now developed rapidly, and as well as poetry, she displayed a particular talent for the crafting of short fiction; this led to her becoming an exponent of the...

Weird tales from the heartland of New England
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was a highly regarded and prominent 19th century American author. She began writing as a teenager to assist in supporting her family, and her pivotal career moment came when she became secretary to Oliver Wendall Holmes who, among other achievements, was acclaimed as one of the most outstanding American poets of his generation. Freeman writing abilities now developed rapidly, and as well as poetry, she displayed a particular talent for the crafting of short fiction; this led to her becoming an exponent of the...