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Famous Modern Ghost Stories

by Dorothy Scarborough

An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of modern ghosts, as well as to show the art of individual stories."

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English

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English

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1921

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Dorothy Scarborough

United States

Emily Dorothy Scarborough was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest.    Scarbo...

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