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English
Pages
482

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The mammoth book of twentieth-century ghost stories
1998, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.
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Table of Contents

One: The golden era. The third person / Henry James
The presence by the fire / H.G. Wells
How it happened / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A ghostly duel / Jack London
The hand / Theodore Dreiser
The Ghost of Down Hill / Edgar Wallace
Honeysuckle Cottage / P. G. Wodehouse
The old dark house / J.B. Priestley
Sophy Mason comes back / E. M. Delafield
In a glass darkly / Agatha Christie ; Two: The phantom army. The bowmen / Arthur Machen
The other side of the medal / Stella Gibbons
Three lines of old French / A. Merritt
The Lusitania waits / Alfred Noyes
Vengeance is mine / Algernon Blackwood
We are the dead / Henry Kuttner
The escort / Daphne du Maurier
The elf in Algiers / John Steinbeck
The mirror in room 22 / James Hadley Chase
Is there a life beyond the gravy? / Stevie Smith ; Three: The modern tradition. Sloane Square / Pamela Hansford Johnson
The leaf-sweeper / Muriel Spark
At the Chalet Lartrec / Winston Graham
The love of a good woman / William Trevor
The haunting of Shawley Rectory / Ruth Rendell
Voices in the coalbin / Mary Higgins Clark
A good sound marriage / Fay Weldon
A self-possessed woman / Julian Barnes
A programmed Christmas carol / John Mortimer
A figment in time / Peter Haining.

Edition Notes

First published in the UK by Robinson Publishing, 1998.

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Mammoth book of 20th century ghost stories, 20th century ghost stories.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.0873308
Library of Congress
PR1309.G5 M358 1998, PR1309.G5M358 1998

Contributors

Editor
Peter Haining

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 482 p. ;
Number of pages
482

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6887022M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780786705832
ISBN 10
0786705833
LCCN
00503368
OCLC/WorldCat
40398959
Library Thing
785007
Goodreads
420309

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