Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Read the famous short story "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde about an American family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: A Grammatical Ghost by Elia W. Peattie
Read the full text of the short story "A Grammatical Ghost" by Elia W. Peattie.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Ghost in the Crosstrees by Frank Norris
Read the full text of the short story "The Ghost in the Crosstrees" by Frank Norris.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Cobbler and the Ghosts
Read the full text of the short story "The Cobbler and the Ghost" by Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Juliana Horatia Ewing
This site features the author Juliana Horatia Ewing including the full text of the novel The Yew-Lane Ghosts and 24 short stories including "Amelia and the Dwarfs" and "An Idyll of the Wood."
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Frank Norris
This site features the author Frank Norris including the full text of five novels and nine short stories.
A&E Television
History.com: The History of Halloween
Explore the origins and history of Halloween as well as traditions and superstitions of this holiday. Links to video clips are included.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Maryland
Did you know about the Chestertown Tea Party? Why is there the Mason and Dixon line? What is a "Jimmy?" The Library of Congress provides this article of fun facts about Maryland.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Casting the Runes by Montague Rhodes James
Read the ghost story "Casting the Runes" by Montague Rhodes James.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Haunted Man
This site provides the complete e-text for the Charles Dickens story, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Trial for Murder
"The Trial for Murder" by Charles Dickens is a ghost story combined with a murder trial. Read the full text on this site.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
This collection uses primary sources to explore Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.
Crayola
Crayola: Mystery Flip Flap (Lesson Plan)
A great activity where students write their own mysteries-with a creative twist. Provides a list of resources, and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com. Registration is free and takes only a few...
British Library
British Library: Dickens's Great Expectations: The Gothic, the Uncanny
This activity will introduce the idea of the uncanny and explore its expression within the narrative form of Charles Dickens's novel "Great Expectations".
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Author: Elia W. Peattie
This site features links to the full text of 21 short stories by Elia W. Peattie such as "An Astral Onion," "A Child of the Rain," "A Grammatical Ghost," "The Room of the Evil Thought," "The Shape of Fear," "Their Dear Little Ghost" and...
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: The Legend of Compass Rosie
This interactive story about the ship Compass Rosie and her crew allows students to read the story and click to see ghosts return to the ship.
Other
Will Hobbs
Author Will Hobbs has put together an interesting and comprehensive website about his life and his novels. Included are activities for teachers to use his books in their curriculum.
Other
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page: "A Christmas Carol"
Part of a larger site dedicated to helping readers understand and appreciate Charles Dickens and his writing, this section is on "A Christmas Carol." Here you'll find not only the plot of the story, but also explanatory notes about some...
NC State University
Global Book Club: The Westing Game
Do you like mystery and intrigue in your literature? This site features activities for the mystery story, "The Westing Game," by Ellen Raskin. Come and check out these cross-curricular activities.
Other
Signal Corps Association: Espionage in the Civil War
Read about the murky underground stories of espionage on both sides of the Civil War. The spies were often eccentric, and the raiders ruthless.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Read the full text of "Wyler's Hand" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the 19th century's most prominent writers of ghost stories.
The History Cat
The History Cat: The Silk Road
Discover detailed information about the Silk Road, a network of trade routes that connected the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea. Read stories of wealthy merchants, deadly bandits, fabulous cities, ghosts and genies, and...
University of California
Online English: The Hamlet Module: u.c. Davis
Learn more about Shakespeare's "Hamlet," when you visit this online English Module.
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