About this book

An exciting collection of tales from the twilight world of haunted houses and hair-raising spectres is contained in this spine-chilling anthology.

Includes: THE RIDDLE | Walter de la Mare THE MONKEY'S PAW | W. W. Jacobs A TOUGH TUSSLE | Ambrose Bierce THROUGH THE DOOR (from The Phantom Roundabout and Other Ghostly Stories) | Ruth Ainsworth A PAIR OF HANDS | Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch MAN-SIZE IN MARBLE | E. Nesbit KROGER'S CHOICE | John Gordon MANY COLOURED GLASS (from Young Winter's Tales) | Lucy M. Boston THE CLOCK TOWER GHOST (from The Clock Tower Ghost) | Gene Kemp THE BROWN HAND | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE GORGE OF THE CHURELS | H. Russell Wakefield THE TELL-TALE HEART | Edgar Allan Poe A KIND OF SWAN SONG | Helen Cresswell THE HAUNTED TRAILER | Robert Arthur THE STRANGER | Ambrose Bierce THE HAUNTED DOLL'S HOUSE | M. R. James THE Landlady (from Kiss Kiss) | Roald Dahl BAD COMPANY | Walter de la Mare THE YELLOW CAT | Michael Joseph THE WOOING OF CHERRY BASNETT | Brian Alderson EXPIATION | E. F. Benson THE SHADOW-CAGE (from The Shadow-Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural) | Philippa Pearce THE MORTAL | Oliver Onions TEA AND EMPATHY | Paul Dorrell LAURA | Saki THE RED ROOM | H. G. Wells THE WELL | W. W. Jacobs THE SWAN CHILD (from A Whisper in the Night) | Joan Aiken

Subjects

  • american horror tales
  • american literature
  • anthologies
  • children's fiction
  • classic literature
  • crime
  • crime fiction
  • crime in fiction
  • cyanide
  • delitos
  • detective and mystery stories
  • english ghost stories
  • fiction
  • first-person narrative
  • ghost
  • ghosts
  • ghost short stories in english (1800-1980)
  • ghost stories
  • ghost story
  • gothic fiction
  • gothic fiction (literary genre)
  • haunted
  • haunting
  • homicide
  • horror
  • horror fiction
  • horror stories
  • horror tales
  • hyperesthesia
  • juvenile fiction
  • murder
  • murder in fiction
  • scary
  • short horror stories
  • short stories
  • short story
  • supernatural