Great American Ghost Stories cover

Great American Ghost Stories

by Bill Bowers

Collection contains: The crime of Micah Rood / by Elia W. Peattie -- The devil and Tom Walker / by Washington Irving -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / by Ambrose Bierce -- The snow-image: a childish miracle / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A ghost of the Sierras / by Bret Harte -- The lady's maid's bell / by Edith Wharton -- A ghost story / by Mark Twain -- The night call / by Henry van Dyke -- Tom Toothacre's ghost story / by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A strange story from the coast / by Rebecca Harding Davis -- The woman at seven brothers / by Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The furnished room / by O. Henry -- The cross-roads / by Amy Lowell -- Jean-ah Poquelin / by George Washington Cable -- Mistress Marian's light / by Gertrude Morton -- Consequences / by Willa Cather -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The wind in the rose-bush / by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?