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The World's Greatest Ghost Stories - Daniel Defoe, Wilkie Collins, Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, Algernon Blackwood, Richard Dalby, Basil Copper,  Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe I only read one book while on vacation, but it was a big one. I've had this one my shelf for a while, and was happy to finally read it. These aren't the greatest ghost stories, sad to say. These are also-ran supernatural stories by the authors of the greatest ghost stories. the only outstanding one to me was by D.H. Lawrence, and that because it was just awful. Horribly overwritten, no one ever just "said", instead they're grimacing or snarling or mocking sardonically. I realize that he was trying to get at a way of conveying the subconscious of his characters, that he was trying to reveal their internal state, but, ugh, the result is painful to read.