The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories ed. Michael Cox (Oxford University Press, October 1996, 0-19-214260-7, £17.99, xx+425pp, hc, an, cover by David Inshaw)
Ghost story anthology of 33 stories, arranged chronologically from 1910 to 1994.
- xi · Introduction · Michael Cox · in
- 1 · In the Dark · E. Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine September 1908, as by E. Bland
- 12 · Rooum · Oliver Onions · ss The Fortnightly Review December 1910
- 25 · The Shadowy Third · Ellen Glasgow · nv Scribner’s Magazine December 1916
- 46 · The Diary of Mr Poynter · M. R. James · nv A Thin Ghost by M. R. James, Longmans, Green, 1919
- 56 · Mrs. Porter and Miss Allen · Hugh Walpole · ss Hutchinson’s Story Magazine February 1921
- 67 · The Nature of the Evidence · May Sinclair · ss Fortune May 1923
- 77 · Night-Fears · L. P. Hartley · ss The Tatler April 30 1924
- 82 · Bewitched · Edith Wharton · nv Pictorial Review March 1925
- 101 · A Short Trip Home · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 17 1927
- 120 · Blind Man’s Buff · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Sketch April 25 1928
- 124 · The Blackmailers · Algernon Blackwood · ss My Grimmest Nightmare, Allen & Unwin, 1935
originally broadcast on the BBC, 11 July 1934.
- 132 · Yesterday Street · Thomas Burke · ss Night Pieces by Thomas Burke, Constable, 1935
- 144 · Smoke Ghost · Fritz Leiber, Jun. · ss Unknown Worlds October 1941
- 158 · The Cheery Soul · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener December 24 1942
- 167 · All but Empty · Graham Greene · ss The Strand Magazine March 1947
- 171 · Three Miles Up · Elizabeth Jane Howard · nv We Are for the Dark by Elizabeth Jane Howard & Robert Aickman, Cape, 1951
- 188 · Close Behind Him · John Wyndham · ss Fantastic January/February 1953
- 200 · The Quincunx · Walter de la Mare · ss The Lady’s Realm January 1907
- 210 · The Tower · Marghanita Laski · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955
- 217 · Poor Girl · Elizabeth Taylor · nv The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955
- 234 · I Kiss Your Shadow— · Robert Bloch · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1956
- 250 · A Woman Seldom Found · William Sansom · ss A Contest of Ladies and Other Stories by William Sansom, Hogarth Press, 1956
- 254 · The Portobello Road · Muriel Spark · nv Winter’s Tales 2, Macmillan, 1956
- 273 · Ringing the Changes · Robert Aickman · nv The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955
- 299 · On Terms · Christine Brooke-Rose · ss The Fourth Ghost Book ed. James Turner, Barrie & Rockliff, 1965
- 309 · The Only Story · William Trevor · ss The Seventh Ghost Book ed. Rosemary Timperley, Barrie & Rockliff, 1971
- 320 · The Loves of Lady Purple · Angela Carter · ss Fireworks by Angela Carter, Quartet Books, 1974
- 331 · Revenant as Typewriter · Penelope Lively · ss Nothing Missing But the Samovar by Penelope Lively, Heinemann, 1978
- 344 · The Little Dirty Girl · Joanna Russ · nv Elsewhere Vol. II ed. Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold, Ace, 1982
- 362 · Watching Me, Watching You · Fay Weldon · ss Woman’s Own January 1981
- 376 · The July Ghost · A. S. Byatt · nv Firebird 1 ed. Tim J. Binding, Penguin, 1982
- 390 · The Highboy · Alison Lurie · ss Redbook October 1990, as “A Curious Haunting”
- 403 · The Meeting House · Jane Gardam · ss Going Into A Dark House by Jane Gardam, Sinclair Stevenson, 1994
- 411 · Notes and Sources · [uncredited] · ms
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