Defoe's
The True
Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs Veal (1706) is seminal in the
development of ghost fiction.
Short Stories
The True
Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs Veal, The Next Day After Her
Death; To One Mrs Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of Sptember
1705, B.
Bragg (London), 1706
(not really a short story - related as a factual
account)
Tales of
Piracy, Crime and Ghosts, Penguin (New York), [1945]
(Including: "The Ghost in All the Rooms", "The
Spectre and the Highwayman", "The Clergyman and the Missing Deed",
"A Strange Experience of Two Brothers", "The devil Frolics with a
Butler", "The Aparition of Mrs Veal", "The Devil and the
Watchmaker", "A Ghostly Accuser", "A Profitable Ghost", "The Hams
and the Quaker", "The Fortune-Teller at Bristol Fair".)
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