Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology

ix • Introduction, by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert 1 • The Old Nurse's Story, by Elizabeth Gaskell 19 • An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, by J. S. Le Fanu 37 • The Miniature, by J. Y. Akerman 44 • The Last House in C-- Street,s by Dinah Mulock 55 • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt, by Charles Dickens 65 • The Botathen Ghost, by R. S. Hawker 74 • The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth, by Rhoda Broughton 83 • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, by Henry James 100 • Pichon & Sons, of the Croic Rousse, by Anonymous 115 • Reality or Delusion?, by Mrs. Henry Wood 130 • Uncle Cornelius His Story, by George MacDonald 150 • The Shadow of a Shade, by Tom Hood 163 • At Chrighton Abbey, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 190 • No Living Voice, by Thomas Street Millington 198 • Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman, by Wilkie Collins 218 • The Story of Clifford House, by Anonymous 239 • Was it an Illusion?: A Parson's Story, by Amelia B. Edwards 256 • The Open Door, by Charlotte Riddell 283 • The Captain of the "Pole-star," by Arthur Conan Doyle 303 • The Body-Snatcher, by Robert Louis Stevenson 319 • The Story of the Rippling Train, by Mary Louisa Molesworth 328 • At the End of the Passage, by Rudyard Kipling 346 • "To Let," by B. M. Croker 360 • John Charrington's Wedding, by E. Nesbit 367 • The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly, by Rosa Mulholland 379 • The Man of Science, by Jerome K. Jerome 385 • Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, by M. R. James 396 • Jerry Bundler, by W. W. Jacobs 403 • An Eddy on the Floor, by Bernard Capes 431 • The Tomb of Sarah, by F. G. Loring 442 • The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit, by Barry Pain 445 • The Shadows on the Wall, by Mary E. Wilkins 459 • Father Macclesfield's Tale, by R. H. Benson 466 • Thurnley Abbey, by Perceval Landon 480 • The Kit-Bag, by Algernon Blackwood 490 • Sources 493 • Select Chronological Conspectus of Ghost Stories: 1840-1910