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4.0

A mixed collection, not nearly as exciting as the other entries in the Everyman Pocket Classic's series that I have read (Stories of the Sea, Bedtime Stories and Detective Stories). The selection of ghost stories is largely chronological from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body-Snatcher to Ray Bradbury's Another Fine Mess--with the stories ranging from classic ghost/supernatural fare to more psychological to more literary and not really belonging in this genre. I don't have any particular complaints about many of the stories but I felt the absence of a more interesting set of organizing themes for the book, an introduction to the overall collection or the individual stories, meant that it was a good collection with nice paper and a nice cover but maybe not the perfect one to choose. That said, I did perfectly well enjoy most all of it.