Includes: "The Lighthouse Keeper's Secret," Anonymous "Luella Miller," Mary Wilkins Freeman "The Ghostly Rental," Henry James "The Crime of Micah Rood," Elia W. Peattie "The Furnished Room," O. Henry "The Children," Josephine Daskam Bacon "The Upper Berth," F. Marion Crawford "The Night Call," Henry Van Dyke "The Transferred Ghost," Frank R. Stockton "The Mystery of Shaft No. 6," John A. Foote "The Ringing of the Bell," Richard F. Woods "A Tough Tussle," Ambrose Bierce "Caleb Thorne's Day," Elizabeth Coatsworth "Grayling: or, 'Murder Will Out.'" William Gilmore Simms "A Tragedy of South Carolina," Mrs. F. W. Dawson "A Strange Arrival," John William DeForest "The Legend of Joe Lee," John D. MacDonald
Charles Gordon Waugh was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1943. He has published over 261 books, most of which are SF, fantasy, or horror anthologies and he has taught at Syracuse University, Ithaca College, Kent State University, and the University of Maine at Augusta.
Waugh is known primarily as a co-editor (with Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg) of the “Mammoth Book” series of genre anthologies.