Ghoulish Collection of True American Classics

From North to South, coast-to-coast, and legendary to forgotten classics

Lyons Press American Classics deliver stories rooted in their time, place, and topic

Distinct series design for impulse- and collect-them-all sales

With frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Will Cather, and long forgotten yet terrifying authors, this ghostly collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales we love to read about—all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons Press’s outstanding Americana library.