Famous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough is a classic anthology of supernatural, horror, mystery, and suspense stories selected from some of the most influential writers of ghost fiction. The collection includes memorable tales such as Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows, W. F. Harvey’s The Beast with Five Fingers, Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia, Ambrose Bierce’s The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, Arthur Machen’s The Bowmen, and Guy de Maupassant’s A Ghost. Rather than focusing only on traditional haunted-house stories, the anthology explores many forms of supernatural terror, including mysterious apparitions, unexplained phenomena, haunted landscapes, psychological fear, death, possession, and encounters with the unknown. Scarborough’s selection provides a broad introduction to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century ghost literature and demonstrates how different authors approached fear, the supernatural, and the boundary between the living and the dead.