The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories: Great Supernatural Tales of the Twentieth Century ed. Peter Haining (Robinson, September 13, 2007, 978-1-84529-476-2, £7.99, xxi+582pp, tp, an, cover by Joe Roberts)
Anthology of 44 reprinted stories. Authors include M.R. James, Doyle, Kipling, Dunsany, Bradbury, Leiber, van Vogt, and Pullman.
- xvii · I Have Been Ghost Hunting · Peter Haining · fw
- 1 · 1. Raising Spectres: The Modern Tradition
- 3 · “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904
- 21 · The House at Treheale · A. C. Benson · nv (r)
- 45 · The Richpins · E. G. Swain · ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales by E. G. Swain, W. Heffer, 1912
- 59 · The Everlasting Club · Arthur Gray · ss The Cambridge Review October 27 1910, as by Ingulphus
- 66 · Number Seventy-Nine · A. N. L. Munby · ss The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories by Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Dennis Dobson, 1949
- 73 · 2. Ghost Writers: The “Golden Era”
- 75 · Playing with Fire · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine March 1900
- 88 · The House Surgeon · Rudyard Kipling · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1909 (+1)
- 110 · The Grove of Ashtaroth · John Buchan · nv Blackwood’s Magazine June 1910
- 131 · A Man from Glasgow · Somerset Maugham · ss Creatures of Circumstance by W. Somerset Maugham, Heinemann, 1947
revised from “Told in the Inn at Algeciras” (The Woman at Home, February 1905).
- 141 · The Last Laugh · D. H. Lawrence · ss The New Decameron IV, Blackwell, 1925
- 157 · The Visit to the Museum · Vladimir Nabokov; translated by Dmitri Nabokov · ss Nabokov’s Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov, Heinemann, 1959
translated from the Russian (“Poseshchenie muzeya”, Sovremennyye zapiski, March 1939, as by Sirin).
- 167 · 3. Phantom Ranks: Supernatural at War
- 169 · The Bowmen · Arthur Machen · vi The (London) Evening News September 29 1914
- 173 · The Ghost of U65 · G. A. Minto · ss Blackwood’s Magazine July 1962
- 180 · “Vengeance Is Mine” · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Wolves of God by Algernon Blackwood & Wilfred Wilson, Cassell & Co., 1921
- 212 · The Punishment · Lord Dunsany · ss Tales of War by Lord Dunsany, Little, Brown, 1918
- 216 · The Haunted Chateau [Neils Orsen] · Dennis Wheatley · ss Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts by Dennis Wheatley, Hutchinson, 1943, as “The Case of the Haunted Chateau”
- 229 · Pink May · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Demon Lover and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Jonathan Cape, 1945
- 237 · A Gremlin in the Beer · Derek Barnes · ss The Spectator June 1942
- 243 · Money for Jam · Sir Alec Guinness · ss The Penguin New Writing 1945
- 255 · 4. The Ghost-Feelers: Modern Gothic Tales
- 257 · The Lady’s Maid’s Bell · Edith Wharton · nv Scribner’s Magazine November 1902
- 276 · The Duenna · Marie Belloc Lowndes · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926
- 289 · Clytie · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Summer 1941
- 301 · The Pool · Daphne du Maurier · nv Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier, Gollancz, 1959
- 328 · A Spot of Gothic · Jane Gardam · ss The Sidmouth Letters by Jane Gardam, Morrow, 1980
- 339 · 5. Entertaining Spooks: Supernatural High Jinks
- 341 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost”
- 353 · Full Fathom Five · Alexander Woollcott · ss The New Yorker June 22 1929
- 356 · The Night the Ghost Got In · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker August 12 1933
- 362 · Sir Tristram Goes West · Eric Keown · ss Punch May 9 1932
- 370 · Who or What Was It? · Kingsley Amis · ss Playboy December 1972
- 380 · Another Fine Mess · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1995
- 389 · 6. Christmas Spirits: Festive Season Chillers
- 391 · Only a Dream… · Rider Haggard · ss Harry Furniss’s Christmas Annual 1905, as “A Wedding Gift”
- 398 · The Haunted House · Edith Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine December 1913, as by E. Bland
- 410 · The Light in the Garden · E. F. Benson · ss Eve November 23 1921
- 419 · The Prescription · Marjorie Bowen · ss The London Magazine January 1929
- 435 · Christmas Honeymoon · Howard Spring · nv The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross, Hodder & Stroughton, 1939
- 453 · South Sea Bubble · Hammond Innes · ss Punch Christmas 1973
- 460 · Ringing in the Good News · Peter Ackroyd · ss The Times December 24 1985
- 467 · 7. Haunting Times: Tales of Unease
- 469 · Smoke Ghost · Fritz Leiber · ss Unknown Worlds October 1941
- 484 · The Ghost · A. E. van Vogt · nv Unknown Worlds August 1942
- 516 · The Party · William F. Nolan · ss Playboy April 1967
- 526 · Underground · J. B. Priestley · ss The Collected Stories of J.B. Priestley by J. B. Priestley, 1974
- 535 · Haunted · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Architecture of Fear ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz, Arbor House, 1987
- 554 · Video Nasty · Philip Pullman · ss Cold Feet ed. Jean Richardson, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985
- 563 · My Beautiful House · Louis de Bernières · ss The Times December 18 2004, as “This Beautiful House”
- 569 · A Century of Ghost Novels 1900-2000 · Peter Haining · bi
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