In his introduction to this collection, Arthur B. Reeve asks "What is the fascination we feel for the mystery of the ghost story?" He's got a lot of thoughts on the question, of course. But you know, in the end, an aficionado can know a lot more by looking at who wrote the stories -- and this volume contains a great list, including Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Daniel De Foe, E.F. Benson, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Ellis Parker Butler, Leopold Kompert, M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, and Vincent O'Sullivan.