Fright Fiction … the ghost story site

Apparently Christopher Lee, the high priest of horror cinema, is also a fan of ghost stories. Not only did he play M.R. James in a BBC adaptation of four of the stories, but he also actually met James. He was examined by him whilst he was a scholar studying at Cambridge.
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You can download a free audio book recording of the classic ghost story “The Upper Berth” by F. Marion Crawford here. Put it on your MP3 player and make sure you listen to it in the dark as you’re walking home on your own…. It’s one of my favourite ghost stories, and I still get [...]

Apparently, the first story to claim this title appeared in the December 1948 edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories, one of those brilliant pulp sci fi mags with garish bug eyed monsters and big breasted space maidens on the cover. Fredric Brown’s two sentence story goes:
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There [...]