The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

by Haining, Peter

ISBN13:
9780786707911
ISBN10:
0786707917
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2000-11-01
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Summary

Vengeful ghosts and kind ones, violent poltergeists and innocent shades, phantasmal victims and evil specters with intentions ranging from the horrific to the erotic -- spirits of every sort haunt the houses in this anthology of tales by such distinguished writers as Joan Aiken, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, L. P. Hartley, James Herbert, M. R. James, Ruth Rendell, Hugh Walpole, and Fay Weldon. As the ghosts in these masterfully haunting tales invade residences as grand as country mansions or as disconcertingly familiar as a city apartment, they also very craftily seduce -- and chill -- the reader's soul.

Acknowledgments

xiii

The Haunted House

(2)

Elizabeth Albright

Ray Bradbury

Foreword

(6)

Haunted Places: Stories of Fact and Fiction

The Haunted and the Haunters

(30)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House

(14)

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A Case of Eavesdropping

(16)

Algernon Blackwood

A Haunted House

(4)

Virginia Woolf

Ghost Hunt

(8)

H. Russell Wakefield

Dark Winner

(8)

William F. Nolan

Avenging Spirits: Tales of Dangerous Elementals

The Old House in Vauxhall Walk

(20)

Charlotte Riddell

No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince

109

(16)

Ralph Adams Cram

The Southwest Chamber

125

(20)

Mary Eleanor Freeman

The Toll-House

145

(12)

W. W. Jacobs

Feet Foremost

157

(34)

L. P. Hartley

Happy Hour

191

(26)

Ian Watson

Shadowy Corners: Accounts of Restless Spirits

The Ankardyne Pew

217

(14)

W. F. Harvey

The Real and the Counterfeit

231

(18)

Louisa Baldwin

A Night at a Cottage

249

(4)

Richard Hughes

The Considerate Hosts

253

(12)

Thorp McClusky

The Grey House

265

(44)

Basil Copper

Watching Me, Watching You

309

(20)

Fay Weldon

Phantom Lovers: Sex and the Supernatural

A Spirit Elopement

329

(10)

Richard Dehan

The House of Dust

339

(18)

Herbert de Hamel

The Kisstruck Bogie

357

(10)

A. E. Coppard

Mr Edward

367

(18)

Norah Lofts

House of the Hatchet

385

(18)

Robert Bloch

Napier Court

403

(20)

Ramsey Campbell

Little Terrors: Ghosts and Children

Lost Hearts

423

(12)

M. R. James

The Shadowy Third

435

(26)

Ellen Glasgow

A Little Ghost

461

(16)

Hugh Walpole

The Patter of Tiny Feet

477

(12)

Nigel Kneale

Uninvited Ghosts

489

(8)

Penelope Lively

Psychic Phenomena: Signs from The Other Side

Playing With Fire

497

(16)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Whistling Room

513

(20)

William Hope Hodgson

Bagnell Terrace

533

(14)

E.F. Benson

The Companion

547

(10)

Joan Aiken

The Ghost Hunter

557

(6)

James Herbert

Computer Seance

563

(8)

Ruth Rendell

Appendix: Haunted House Novels: A Listing

571

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