Selected Ghost Stories ed. Giles Gordon (Bloomsbury, November 14, 1996, 0-7475-2914-0, £10.95, 232pp, hc, an, cover by Jeff Fisher)
Anthology of 13 classic ghost stories. A mini-hardback.
- 1 · A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705 · Daniel Defoe · ar B. Bragg, 1706, uncredited.
- 13 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828
- 33 · The Lady with the Velvet Collar · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon & Gent., John Murray, 1824, as “The Adventure of the German Student” by Geoffrey Crayon
- 40 · The Gray Champion · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine January 1835, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy”
- 50 · No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866
- 67 · The Dream Woman · Wilkie Collins · nv Temple Bar November 1874 (+1)
revised from “Brother Morgan’s Story of the Dream-Woman” (The Queen of Hearts, Hurst and Blackett, 1859), itself revised from “The Ostler” (Household Words, Christmas 1855).
- 93 · A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 14 1889
- 101 · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908
- 146 · The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral · Montague Rhodes James · nv The Contemporary Review April 1910
- 166 · The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885
- 195 · The Quincunx · Walter de la Mare · ss The Lady’s Realm January 1907
- 209 · The Apple Tree · Elizabeth Bowen · ss When Churchyards Yawn ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1931
- 225 · The Leaf-Sweeper · Muriel Spark · ss The London Mystery Magazine #31, December 1956
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