The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories

Acknowledgements Introduction The Beggarwoman of Locarno — Heinrich von Kleist The Entail — E. T. A. Hoffmann Wandering Willie's Tale — Walter Scott The Queen of Spades — Alexander Pushkin The Old Nurse's Story — Elizabeth Gaskell The Open Door — Margaret Oliphant Mr Justice Harbottle — Sheridan Le Fanu Le Horla — Guy de Maupassant Sir Edmund Orme — Henry James Angeline, or the Haunted House — Emile Zola (in a new translation by Clive Smith) The Moonlit Road — Ambrose Bierce A Haunted Island — Algernon Blackwood The Rose Garden — M. R. James The Return of Imray — Rudyard Kipling My Adventure in Norfolk — A. J. Alan The Inexperienced Ghost — H. G. Wells The Room in the Tower — E. F. Benson One Who Saw — A. M. Burrage Afterward — Edith Wharton The Wardrobe — Thomas Mann The Buick Saloon — Ann Bridge The Tower — Marghanita Laski Footsteps in the Snow — Mario Soldati The Wind — Ray Bradbury Exorcizing Baldassare — Edward Hyams The Leaf-Sweeper — Muriel Spark 'Dear Ghost...' — Fielden Hughes Sonata for Harp and Bicycle — Joan Aiken Come and Get Me — Elizabeth Walter Andrina — George Mackay Brown The Axe — Penelope Fitzgerald The Game of Dice — Alain Danielou The July Ghost — A. S. Byatt