Short Ghost

Around three and a half thousand years ago, members of a small community of Bronze Age people spent several days away from their usual activities of farming, hunting, weaving and food processing in order to construct a burial mound.

Strange happenings and visitations start to haunt a Norfolk village when Tim, the local builder, discovers a stone slab concealing the entrance to an ancient pit. Evidence of a long forgotten and shameful event from the distant past is revealed, and in a race against time it becomes clear that only in the darkness of the pit can an answer be found.

Emily arrives at Westbury Hall with a job to do. She's to clean and conserve all of the books in the impressive library, preserving them for future generations. Not long into her stay at the house, she bumps into the night guard, George. She'd expected an old, balding guy with a comb-over, so the hunky chap she actually meets is a very pleasant surprise.

A vacation in a quiet country spot; what could possibly go wrong? From Northcote's collection In Ghostly Company published in 1921.

Tom is a gay young artist struggling to find success in New York City. For Tom, a love life seems an impossibility. One day, his hope in romance revives when he encounters Cal - a charming stranger, but...it might be a problem that Cal was killed in the First World War - 100 years ago! Then again, death might be just the beginning - the beginning of romance!

It was just a dusty old Buffalo Skull, but in it's own way, beautiful. With love and care, she restored it to a beautiful piece of art. Following old drawings, she thought it was perfect. But now that it was back to it's old self so was it's magic. No one noticed and if they did it wasn't spoken of. But now its power is making itself known.

Emmy takes on the biggest challenge she's ever encountered yet - helping a ghost figure out the truth about the night she was killed.

Will Lucy the ghost be at peace, or will she haunt the paranormal investigators searching for her killer forever? Emmy and her friends, with the help of a psychic named Cassiopeia, find out that Laurel was behind Lucy's death, but find Laurel missing, allegedly in the neighboring town of Tallulah Falls.

Akira's plans are simple: write wedding invitations, bake Christmas cookies, and eat red meat. (The last surprises her, too.) But when Rose, the ghost who haunts her house, asks for a favor, Akira can't say no. Although she's faced danger before, even death, a toddler who doesn't like peanut-butter-and-jelly might be her worst nightmare.

El señor Williams es un gran aficionado a adquirir viejos grabados y estampas. Como es habitual, recibe un catálogo del señor Britnell, sugiriendo éste que examine cierto grabado que puede ser de su interés. Dicho grabado contiene la vista de una casa de principios del siglo XVIII, y al final lo solicita, junto a otros artículos del catálogo. Poco a poco irá desvelándose la naturaleza del grabado. Otro cuento imprescindible.

James vuelve al marco de la mansión maldita por hechos acaecidos en generaciones pasadas, en este caso relacionados con la caza de brujas en Inglaterra.

Mr. Anderson viaja a Viborg en busca de algunos documentos para su investigación sobre la historia de la Iglesia de Dinamarca. Llega a una casa hotel, “The Golden Lion”, y se hospeda en el cuarto 12. Conoce al señor Kristensen, el dueño y gerente, y al señor Jensen, un abogado hospedado en la habitación 14, junto a la suya. El primer día, Anderson ve que no hay registro de una habitación 13, lo que es costumbre en Dinamarca. En la noche, Anderson siente que su habitación es más pequeña que antes, y por un momento cree que es por la poca luz.

El señor Wraxall viaja a Suecia con motivo del libro de viajes que está escribiendo. Una de sus paradas es la mansión de De la Gardie, toda una antigüedad. Entre las reliquias se encuentra el retrato de Magnus, el primer De la Gardie, por quien siente un vivo interés; incluso querrá visitar el mausoleo de la familia.

It is the tale of a DC cop's on and off-duty ghostly encounters with a childhood friend who died in his youth. Hauntings can be murder.

Rachel can't understand the strange sounds and goings-on in her house or why her son, all of a sudden, has an imaginary friend, until he mentions the name Paul and what this friend wants. Rachel's deadly secret that she's kept buried for many years has now worked its way to the surface, only to take everything from her. Bodies will drop like flies if she doesn't come to terms with her past and give into the horrible demands of the dead.

At the end of her life, Beth Sanders learns a haunting secret. In this chilling short story, an ordinary woman find she must come to terms with a horrifying evil.

A superbly crafted Dickens classic, masterfully narrated - a ghostly apparition supervises the trial of his murderer.

Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) was an English novelist and short story writer. 'Let Loose' is a supernatural ghost story where a young architect wishes to research a unique fresco in the crypt of a remote and ancient parish church in Yorkshire. The parish clergyman is remarkably reluctant to hand over the keys to the crypt and sets some odd conditions to their use. On the subsequent days after the young architect has opened the crypt, terrible and mysterious deaths begin to plague the village.

This is a story from the "Great Ghost Stories" collection.

Mark Twain takes his humor to the graveyard in this memorable short story. Twain carries on a conversation with a skeleton that has been neglected in the cemetery. While we aren't told what a smiling skeleton looks like, Twain is clear it's not a pleasant view. None of us want to be forgotten and this story helps the hearer understand that even in death we do not want to be neglected.