Open these pages after dark—if you dare. Twenty-Five Ghost Stories collects, complete and unabridged, a full score and more of the classic tales of hauntings and the unexplained that thrilled readers at the turn of the twentieth century. Within these pages, candles gutter in empty rooms, footsteps echo on lonely roads, and the dead return with unfinished business. This edition reproduces the complete original text exactly as first published, preserving every chill, every creaking stair, and every last-line shiver. A new introduction sets the stories in their historical moment, when the ghost story flourished on both sides of the Atlantic, and reader's notes illuminate the customs, settings, and storytelling conventions that modern readers may find unfamiliar. Whether you are revisiting old favorites or discovering these tales for the first time, this volume offers the perfect companion for a winter's night, a crackling fire, and a lamp turned low. Part of The Founding Texts Library.