Watch your step. Be careful what you do. Ghosts are everywhere. In houses new and old. In lonely walks and grim gatherings. Underneath the wallpaper. Riding through the night. These are some of the spookiest ghost stories ever written, from authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Henry James. Prepare to be haunted...

The empty house /Blackwell, Algernon -- The monkey's paw / Jacobs, W. W. -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Irving, Washington -- The masque of the Red Death / Poe, Edgar Allan -- The judge's house / Stoker, Bram -- A ghost story / Jerome, Jerome K. -- The yellow wallpaper / Gilman, Charlotte Perkins -- The romance of certain old clothes / James, Henry -- The story of Clifford House / Anonymous.