The ten ghost stories reprinted here were first published in England and America between 1864 and 1912, a half-century that represents the golden age of this endlessly entertaining branch of popular fiction. So popular were ghost stories in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods that a selection such as this can only represent a sampling of the sub-categories of the genre-from the subtle and the humorous to the chilling and the macabre, from the fictional historical account to the tale set in