Publisher's Synopsis
This book was an interesting trip in mystery and ghost stories from the 19th century. The haunted house / C. Dickens -- No. 1 branch line: The signal man / C. Dickens -- The haunted and the haunters; or, the house and the brain / Bulwer-Lytton -- The incantation / Bulwer-Lytton -- The avenger / T. De Quincey -- Melmoth the wanderer / C.R. Maturin -- A mystery with a moral / L. Sterne -- On being found out /W.M. Thackeray -- The notch in the ax / W.M. Thackeray -- Bourgonef -- The closed cabinet.
