Humorous Ghost Stories

by Dorothy Scarborough

Overview

CONTENTS:

Introduction: The Humorous Ghost

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

The Ghost-Extinguisher by Gelett Burgess

"Dey Ain't No Ghosts" by Ellis Parker Butler

The Transferred Ghost by Frank R. Stockton

The Mummy's Foot by Théophile Gautier

The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews

The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs

Back from that Bourne by Anonymous

The Ghost-Ship by Richard Middleton

The Transplanted Ghost by Wallace Irwin

The Last Ghost in Harmony by Nelson Lloyd

The Ghost of Miser Brimpson by Eden Phillpotts

The Haunted Photograph by Ruth McEnery Stuart

The Ghost that Got the Button by Will Adams

The Specter Bridegroom by Washington Irving

The Specter of Tappington Compiled by Richard Barham

In the Barn by Burges Johnson

A Shady Plot by Elsie Brown

The Lady and the Ghost by Rose Cecil O'Neill

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781981669684
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/18/2017
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Emily Dorothy Scarborough (January 27, 1878 - November 7, 1935) was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest.
Scarborough was born in Mount Carmel, Texas. At the age of four she moved to Sweetwater, Texas for her mother's health, as her mother needed the drier climate. The family soon left Sweetwater in 1887, so that the Scarborough children could get a good education at Baylor College.
Even though Scarborough's writings are identified with Texas, she studied at University of Chicago and Oxford University and beginning in 1916 taught literature at Columbia University.
While receiving her PhD from Columbia, she wrote a dissertation, "The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917)". Sylvia Ann Grider writes in a critical introduction the dissertation "was so widely acclaimed by her professors and colleagues that it was published and it has become a basic reference work."
Dorothy Scarborough came in contact with many writers in New York, including Edna Ferber and Vachel Lindsay. She taught creative writing classes at Columbia. Among her creative writing students were Eric Walrond, and Carson McCullers, who took her first college writing class from Scarborough.
Her most critically acclaimed book, The Wind (first published anonymously in 1925), was later made into a film of the same name starring Lillian Gish.