{"product_id":"chilling-ghost-stories-9781435171046","title":"Chilling Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eLets bust a few myths about ghosts, shall we: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eyou can’t see them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eyou can’t touch them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethey can’t hurt you\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e If you subscribe to any of the beliefs above, then woe betide you—and consider the contents of \u003ci\u003eChilling Ghost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e to be the syllabus for your remedial education. These twenty-five tales feature spooks both visible and invisible whose varying degrees of tangibility are proof that, sometimes, what you can’t see most assuredly \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e hurt you. They are so frightening that they should come with a Specter General’s warning that you shouldn’t read them if you’re faint of heart.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Black Tancrède—Henry S. Whitehead. The rebellious slave had cursed his torturers with his dying breath. A century later the hideous instrument of his wrath was still at large.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Out of the Deep—Walter de la Mare. Whatever the bell-pull in the old house summoned it ensured that the person who pulled it would never do so again—in this lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Tower—Barry Pain. You can’t see what haunts the abandoned tower, but some believe that they have heard or touched it—and they have fared much better than those whom it has touched.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Horse of the Invisible—William Hope Hodgson. Was the spectral horse that prowled the grounds of the Hisgins estate a hoax, a curse—or something worse.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch—Ambrose Bierce. The murderer and his victim were long gone from the earthly plain, but the sounds of their fatal \u003ci\u003epas de deux\u003c\/i\u003e persisted eerily.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Well—W. W. Jacobs. It was unfortunate when Benson’s fiancée dropped her bracelet down the old well. But what Benson encountered when he descended to retrieve it was downright horrifying.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A Ghost’s Revenge—Lettice Galbraith. There was something terribly wrong about the house in Creamshire—something that sent its owners fleeing in terror to die of fright.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"BookAnnex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67872088948914,"sku":"9781435171046","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/9781435171046.jpg?v=1793638972","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/chilling-ghost-stories-9781435171046","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}