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A Red Skelton in Your Closet

A Red Skeleton in Your Closet - Ghost stories gay and grim selected by the master of comedy Red Skelton (1965)

A Red Skeleton in Your Closet – Ghost stories gay and grim selected by the master of comedy Red Skelton (1965)

In short, A Red Skelton in Your Closet is a collection of ghost stories. Red Skelton wrote the introduction, and selected the various stories. He is not the author of the various stories. It’s an anthology of ghost stories, not original stories by Red.

Table of Contents

  • Of course I believe in ghosts. Doesn’t everybody? by Red Skelton
    • The introduction, written by Red, talking about his introduction to ghost stories back in school by Miss Marsh
  • The Spook Upon the Stair, by Andrew McCullen
  • My Displaced Ghosts, by John West
  • In a Dim Room, by Lord Dunsany
  • The Wonderful Cat of Cobbie Bean, by Barbee Oliveer Carleton
  • Little Orphant Annie, by James Whitcomb Riley
    • (Editor’s note: the ghost story Miss Marsh read to Red’s school class)
  • To Starch a Spook, by Andrew Benedict
  • The Open Window, by Saki
  • The Moor’s Legacy, by Washington Irving
  • Nine Little Goblins, by James Whitcomb Riley
  • The Ghost Ship, by Richard Middleton
  • The Boy Who Drew Cats, by Lafcadio Hearn
  • The Haunted Trailer, by Robert Arthur
  • The Superstitious Ghost, by Arthur Guiterman
  • O Ugly Bird!, by Manly Wade Wellman
  • The Canterville Ghost, by Oscar Wilde
  • He Walked by Day, by Julius Long
  • When the Night Wind Howls, by W. S. Gilbert
  • Mr. Whitcomb’s Genie, by Walter Brooks
  • The Water Ghost, by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Three Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve, by Jerome K. Jerome
  • The Faithful Ghost
  • The Ruined Home
  • The Ghost of the Blue Chamber