The Captain of the 'Pole-Star'

ix • Preface, by Michael Dirda xv • Introduction, by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden 3 • The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe 10 • The American's Tale 16 • The Captain of the 'Pole-Star' 34 • The Winning Shot 60 • The Silver Hatchet 72 • Selecting a Ghost 85 • J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement 108 • The Blood-Stone Tragedy 116 • John Barrington Cowles 134 • The Great Keinplatz Experiment 146 • Cyprian Overbeck Wells 160 • The Ring of Thoth 173 • A Pastoral Horror 186 • The Speckled Band 205 • 'De Profundis' 213 • Lot No. 249 238 • The Los Amigos Fiasco 244 • The Case of Lady Sannox 252 • The Lord of Château Noir 261 • The Parasite 293 • The Striped Chest 303 • The Fiend of the Cooperage 313 • The New Catacomb 324 • The Sealed Room 335 • The Retirement of Signor Lambert 342 • The Brazilian Cat 357 • The Brown Hand 369 • Playing with Fire 380 • The Legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles 383 • The Leather Funnel 392 • The Silver Mirror 399 • The Terror of Blue John Gap 412 • The Blighting of Sharkey 421 • Through the Veil 425 • How It Happened 428 • The Horror of the Heights 440 • The Bully of Brocas Court 450 • The Lift