The Curse of the Undead gathers twenty classic ghost novels into an expansive survey of supernatural fiction from the Gothic revival through late Victorian and early twentieth-century horror. Its selections range from ancestral hauntings, cursed houses, and revenants to occult investigations, psychological unease, and sensational mysteries. Gothic romance, maritime terror, detective plotting, decadent fantasy, and proto-cosmic horror coexist here, revealing how the ghost story repeatedly transformed the fears of its age. Particularly memorable are the volume's tales of inherited guilt, imperiled domestic spaces, and spectral presences that blur the boundary between external haunting and troubled consciousness. The anthology brings together writers associated with foundational Gothic fiction, Victorian sensation, popular romance, imperial adventure, and modern supernatural terror. These varied contributors-among them canonical novelists and once widely read popular authors-demonstrate that ghost fiction developed not in a single tradition but through exchanges among literary prestige, periodical culture, theatrical melodrama, and mass-market storytelling. Their collective work situates the undead within changing debates about gender, class, science, spirituality, colonial encounter, and the instability of rational knowledge. Recommended for students, enthusiasts, and scholars of the fantastic, this volume offers an unusually broad opportunity to trace the ghost novel's formal and cultural evolution. Reading its diverse works together illuminates a sustained dialogue between Gothic inheritance and modern anxieties, while providing both pleasurable chills and substantial historical insight.