Andrew D. Gable
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Any particular genre? All my recommendations are older horror. That said:
There's a large collection of E.F. Benson's ghost stories (although some of them aren't really ghosts) available from Carroll & Graf. "Negotium Perambulans", "The Horror-Horn", "Caterpillars", and "...And No Bird Sings" are all pretty nifty, and none feature literal ghosts.
Most of Algernon Blackwood's stuff is good, although many of his best stories are also too long to read casually. There's two good collections of his stuff -- Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Tales features most of his best stuff, and The Complete John Silence Stories is a series of stories about an occult investigator.
Finally, Chaosium has a few anthologies out collecting the works of Arthur Machen, who's a hit-or-miss author to me. The Three Impostors and Other Stories has "The Great God Pan", "The Inmost Light", "The Novel of the Black Seal", and "The Novel of the White Powder", while The White People and Other Stories has good ones like "The White People", "The Great Return", and "The Coming of the Terror".
There's a large collection of E.F. Benson's ghost stories (although some of them aren't really ghosts) available from Carroll & Graf. "Negotium Perambulans", "The Horror-Horn", "Caterpillars", and "...And No Bird Sings" are all pretty nifty, and none feature literal ghosts.
Most of Algernon Blackwood's stuff is good, although many of his best stories are also too long to read casually. There's two good collections of his stuff -- Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Tales features most of his best stuff, and The Complete John Silence Stories is a series of stories about an occult investigator.
Finally, Chaosium has a few anthologies out collecting the works of Arthur Machen, who's a hit-or-miss author to me. The Three Impostors and Other Stories has "The Great God Pan", "The Inmost Light", "The Novel of the Black Seal", and "The Novel of the White Powder", while The White People and Other Stories has good ones like "The White People", "The Great Return", and "The Coming of the Terror".