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    Ghosts of the Shadow Market (Walker Books, June 6, 2019, 978-1-4063-8536-6, £14.99, 617pp, hc, oa, cover by Cliff Nielsen)
        Collection of 10 stories, 8 were previously available as ebooks in 2018. The stories feature characters from Clare’s “Mortal Instruments”, “Infernal Devices”, “Dark Artifices” and “Last Hours” series. Authors include Cassandra Clare, Kelly Link, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, and Robin Wasserman. Simultaneous with US (Margaret K. McElderry Books) edition. Issued without a dustjacket in illustrated boards.

    Ghost Stories (R. Ackerman, 1823, xx+292pp, hc, an)
        A volume assembled “with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghosts and apparitions, and to promote a rational estimate of the nature of phenomena commonly considered as supernatural.” Contains six color plates. Note revised US edition, Carey & Hart, 1846.

    Ghost Stories (Gulliver Books, 1945, 1/-, pb, an)
        This volume is listed as one of the titles in the series Famous Stories of All Time published by Gulliver Books at the end of the War. It is possible that not all of these were published. Some may be single-author collections and not anthologies. Other titles include Tales of Adventure, Tales of Mystery, The Dream and Other Tales of Romance and The Spider’s Eye and Other Stories.

    Ghost Stories (Happy Hour Library, 1947, 94pp, pb, an)
        Three stories almost certainly selected from Famous Ghost Stories ed. Bennett Cerf (Random House, 1944).

    Ghost Stories and Presentiments ed. George Redway, uncredited (George Redway, November 1888, 308pp, hc, an)
        Reprint (George Redway 1887 as Dreamland and Ghostland, Volume III) anthology.

    Ghost Stories (var. 1) (Carey & Hart, 1846, 192pp, hc, an)
        Variant US edition of the Ackerman 1823 volume. Also reprinted in New York: James Miller, 1865. Drops “The Enamoured Ghost” and “Marianne,” adds “The Cold Hand”, “The Harvard College Ghost”, “Garrick’s Ghost” and “Apparition of Lord William Petty”.

    Ghost’s Wives (Dean, December 1866, 1/-, 96pp, octavo, oa)
        Subtitled: “A String of Strange Stories told round a Christmas Fire by Six Young Widows and a Spinster of a Certain Age.” The New Christmas Annual for 1867. It is profusely illustrated, and includes a series of cartoons by Charles H. Ross which are totally out of place with the concept of the annual, which concerns the seven ladies talking about bizarre events in their lives.
    • 5 · A Prelude Played in a Gale of Wind · [uncredited] · ss
    • 11 · A Tale of Bleeding-Heart Yard · [uncredited] · ss
    • 27 · A Tale of Powder and Patches · [uncredited] · ss
    • 50 · A Tale of the Midnight Express · [uncredited] · ss
    • 59 · The Tale of a Blue-Eyed Reverend Gentleman · [uncredited] · ss
    • 76 · A Tale of Bad Money · [uncredited] · ss
    • 83 · A Tale of a Gas-Light Ghost · [uncredited] · ss; contents page lists story as “A Tale of a Lamplight Ghost”.
    • 90 · A Tale Without End or Beginning · [uncredited] · ss
    • 96 · Conclusion · [uncredited] · vi

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