Twenty-Five Ghost Stories — Annotated Edition

Description

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories is an annotated DodaBooks edition of the classic 1904 anthology compiled and edited by W. Bob Holland.

The collection gathers twenty-five supernatural tales from the Victorian and early Edwardian period, ranging from Poe’s psychological masterpiece “The Black Cat” to anonymous folk-style ghost narratives and translated French horror by de Maupassant. The stories explore hauntings, revenants, spectral visions, and uncanny encounters — each filtered through the anxieties of its era: guilt, isolation, the permeability of the boundary between living and dead.

This edition preserves the original texts while adding inline DodaBooks annotations that illuminate atmosphere, symbolism, narrative structure, and historical context as the reader progresses through each tale.