A good, varied collection of stories - I had only read one of them before, The Monkey's Paw, so there was plenty to discover. Apart from said monkey's paw, and The Axe, they are not really horrifying or creepy, just intriguing, sometimes quite appealing, and led me to wonder why we thing of ghosts as frightening when really they are immaterial, things we see that can't do us any harm, awakened memories... Some remarkable writing here, especially Nabokov who took me into something similar to my dreams. ( )