F. marion crawford: the complete supernatural stories (tales of horror and mystery: the upper berth, for the blood is the life, the screaming skull, the doll's ghost, the dead smile...) (halloween stories)

Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer and historian noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. H. Russell Wakefield, in an essay on ghost stories, called Crawford's "The Upper Berth" (1886) the "very best one" of such stories. H. P. Lovecraft considered it "one of the most tremendous horror-stories in all literature."