The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson

vii • Foreword by Joan Aiken xiii • Introduction by Richard Dalby 1 • The Room in the Tower 12 • The Dust-Cloud 23 • Gavon's Eve 32 • The Confession of Charles Linkworth 45 • At Abdul Ali's Grave 55 • The Shootings of Achnaleish 67 • How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery 79 • Caterpillars 86 • The Cat 98 • The Bus-Conductor 105 • The Man Who Went Too Far 123 • Between the Lights 132 • Outside the Door 139 • The Terror by Night 145 • The Other Bed 154 • The Thing in the Hall 164 • The House with the Brick-Kiln 173 • "And the Dead Spake-" 189 • The Outcast 203 • The Horror-Horn 214 • Machaon 227 • Negotium Perambulans 239 • At the Farmhouse 252 • Inscrutable Decrees 264 • The Gardener 275 • Mr. Tilly's Séance 288 • Mrs. Amworth 300 • In the Tube 312 • Roderick's Story 323 • Reconciliation 335 • The Face 346 • Spinach 361 • Bagnell Terrace 371 • A Tale of an Empty House 382 • Naboth's Vineyard 394 • Expiation 408 • Home, Sweet Home 419 • "And No Bird Sings" 430 • The Corner House 440 • Corstophine 451 • The Temple 465 • The Step 476 • The Bed by the Window 485 • James Lamp 496 • The Dance 507 • The Hanging of Alfred Wadham 518 • Pirates 532 • The Wishing-Well 543 • The Bath-Chair 555 • Monkeys 568 • Christopher Comes Back 577 • The Sanctuary 594 • Thursday Evenings 604 • The Psychical Mallards 617 • The Recent "Witch Burning" at Clonmel 624 • Postscript by Richard Dalby