I am looking for a collection of ghost stories that are completely
royalty free, including for commercial use. If there are any
restrictions then I do not want them.

Themes: ghosts, paranormal, poltergeists, seances, psychics, haunted
houses, spectres, clairvoyance, spirits, spooks etc.

I do not want a collection of short articles taken from article type
sites. Instead I am looking for longer stories from the public domain
archives. Ideally these are from books that someone has already
scanned in and performed OCR to produce a Word Doc or PDF.

Example lengths:
Either: 10 stories minimum of 1500 words each
Or: 3 stories minimum of 5000 words each

Note the word counts are just guidelines, so you can get an idea of
the minimum I am looking for. If you find a full length novel that is
appropriate, then by all means include that as well.

The stories must be either immediately accessible or readily available
with minimum hassle.

Hello Clickstar,

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Ghosts I have Met and Some Others by John Kendrick Bangs
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6995
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8gost10.txt


True Irish Ghost Stories by St John D Seymour
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14099
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14099/14099.txt


Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4387
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/prhg10.txt


Modern Ghost Stories, by Various,
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15143
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/1/4/15143/15143-8.txt
 

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8486
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8jgst10.txt


Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1993
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/tldsp10.txt


The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14471
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14471/14471-8.txt


The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/170
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/hhotl10.txt


Stories of Mystery by Various
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16405
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16405/16405.txt


The Haunted Chamber by "The Duchess"
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16053
Plain text
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16053/16053-8.txt


Hauntings by Vernon Lee
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9956
Plain text
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext06/8hntg10.txt


Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu 
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10007
Plain text 
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10007/10007-8.txt
 

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I hope this is helpful. 

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Excellent work as always, Bobbie. You are truly amazing!

Thank you Magnesium!