The Spook House

Description

Collection contains: [Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) The realm of the unreal -- Chickamauga -- A fruitless assignment -- A vine on a house -- One of twins -- Present at a hanging -- A wireless message -- One of the missing -- An arrest -- A jug of sirup -- The Isle of Pines -- At Old Man Eckert's -- Three and one are one -- The spook house -- The middle toe of the right foot -- The thing at Nolan -- The difficulty of crossing a field -- The affair at Coulter's Notch -- The unfinished race -- Charles Ashmore's trail -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- The night-doings at 'Deadman's' -- A baby tramp -- A psychological shipwreck -- A cold greeting -- Beyond the wall -- John Bartine's watch -- The man out the nose -- An adventure at Brownville -- The mocking-bird -- The suitable surroundings -- The boarded window -- A lady from Redhorse -- The famous Gilson bequest -- A holy terror -- A diagnosis of death.

Description

A little boy is lost in the wilderness with nothing but his wooden toy knife to protect him, when he comes across a ghastly spectacle of unspeakable horror. Two travellers caught in a storm one night take shelter in a deserted plantation house and discover a room filled with the dead. An old man suspected of murder gets a grisly comeuppance . These are just some of the countless victims for whom all hope is lost in Ambrose Bierce's chilling stories of death, delusion and the supernatural.

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Other Editions

• The Spook HousePaperbackPenguin Books2008-01-01
• The Spook HouseeBookPenguin Group UK2008-01-01
• The Spook HousePaperbackPenguin Books2009-01-01