Ghosts ed. William Mayne (Hamish Hamilton, 1971, 0-241-01939-7, £1.50, 187pp, hc, an)
Anthology of stories, poems and factual accounts of ghosts, goblins, spooks and other supernatural creations. Aimed at younger readers.
- vii · Preface · William Mayne · in
- 1 · The Old Ghost · Thomas Lovell Beddoes · pm The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, J.M. Dent, 1890
- 2 · The Three Sisters · William Wymark Jacobs · ss Night Watches by W. W. Jacobs, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914
- 12 · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap by Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray”
- 26 · Transition · Algernon Blackwood · ss The New Witness December 11 1913, as “Mudbury’s Xmas Adventure”
- 33 · Sweet Infection · William Mayne · ss
- 50 · The Ghosts’ Moonshine · Thomas Lovell Beddoes · pm The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, W. Pickering, 1851
- 52 · The Troll · T. H. White · ss Gone to Ground, 1935
- 66 · The Phantom-Wooer · Thomas Lovell Beddoes · pm from Death’s Jest-Book, William Pickering, 1850
- 67 · The Waif Woman · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1914
- 87 · The Bear and the Skrattel · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss German Popular Stories by trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1823
- 99 · The Cauld Lad of Hilton · T. Arthur · pm 1875, as “The Singular History of the Cauld Lad of Hilton”
- 101 · The Picktree “Brag” · T. Arthur · ss (r)
- 103 · The Hedley Kow · Joseph Jacobs · ss (r)
- 107 · The Doom of Soulis · John Mackay Wilson; adapted by William Mayne · ss
- 118 · The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley · Daniel Defoe; adapted by William Mayne · ss
- 124 · Haunted · William Mayne · pm
- 126 · Prodigious Noise of War and Battle · ed. William Mayne · ar (r)
edited extracts from a Royal Commission document.
- 138 · The Ghost Chase · Walter de la Mare · pm (r)
- 139 · London: St. James Street · J. H. Ingram · ar (r)
- 141 · At Hinton Ampner · William Mayne · ss
- 151 · Some One · Walter de la Mare · pm Peacock Pie by Walter de la Mare, Constable, 1913
- 152 · Miss Beswick of Birchen Bower · William Mayne · ss
- 162 · Wood Scar in Vendale · William Mayne · ss
- 167 · The Last Shift · Wilfrid Gibson · pm (r)
- 168 · A Shiver of Ghosts · translated by Cyril Birch · ss Chinese Myths and Fantasies by Cyril Birch, Oxford University Press, 1961
- 184 · The Phantom · Walter de la Mare · pm Songs of Childhood by Walter Ramal, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902, as by Walter Ramal
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