20th Century Ghost Stories (Mammoth Book of)

An outstanding collection of literary ghost stories includes 30 of the best examples of the genre, featuring contributions from Jack London, Agatha Christie, John Steinbeck, Muriel Spark, Daphne du Maurier, William Trevor, Mary Higgins Clark, and others.Contents: The third person / Henry James --The presence by the fire / H.G. Wells --How it happened / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --A ghostly duel / Jack London --The hand / Theodore Dreiser --The Ghost of Down Hill / Edgar Wallace --Honeysuckle Cottage / P. G. Wodehouse --The old dark house / J.B. Priestley --Sophy Mason comes back / E. M. Delafield --In a glass darkly / Agatha Christie -- The bowmen / Arthur Machen --The other side of the medal / Stella Gibbons --Three lines of old French / A. Merritt --The Lusitania waits / Alfred Noyes --Vengeance is mine / Algernon Blackwood --We are the dead / Henry Kuttner --The escort / Daphne du Maurier --The elf in Algiers / John Steinbeck --The mirror in room 22 / James Hadley Chase --Is there a life beyond the gravy? / Stevie Smith -- Sloane Square / Pamela Hansford Johnson -The leaf-sweeper / Muriel Spark --At the Chalet Lartrec / Winston Graham --The love of a good woman / William Trevor --The haunting of Shawley Rectory / Ruth Rendell --Voices in the coalbin / Mary Higgins Clark --A good sound marriage / Fay Weldon --A self-possessed woman / Julian Barnes --A programmed Christmas carol / John Mortimer --A figment in time / Peter Haining.

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