The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories Author:Peter Haining (Editor) This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James, was published and in the intervening years a great many other distinguished write... more »rs have tried their hand at this popular genre -- some basing their fictional tales on real supernatural experiences of their own.
Contents:
*Raising spectres : the modern tradition.
-- "Oh whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad" / M. R. James;
-- House at Treheale / A. C. Benson;
-- Richpins / E. G. Swain;
-- Everlasting Club / Arthur Gray;
-- Number Seventy-Nine / Dr A. N. L. Munby;
* Ghost writers : the "golden era."
-- Playing with fire / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-- House surgeon / Rudyard Kipling;
-- Grove of Ashtraroth / John Buchan;
-- Man from Glasgow / Somerset Maugham;
-- Last laugh / Vladimir Nabokov;
* Phantom ranks : supernatural at war.
-- Bowmen / Arthur Machen;
-- Ghost of U65 / George Minto;
-- "Vengeance is mine" / Algernon Blackwood;
-- Punishment / Lord Dunsany;
-- Haunted chateau / Dennis Wheatley;
-- Pink May / Elizabeth Bowen;
-- Gremlin in the beer / Derek Barnes;
-- Money for jam / Sir Alec Guinness;
* The ghost-feelers : modern Gothic tales.
-- Lady's maid's bell / Edith Wharton;
-- Duenna / Marie Belloc Lowndes;
-- Clytie / Eudora Welty;
-- Pool / Daphne du Maurier;
-- Spot of Gothic / Jane Gardam;
* Entertaining spooks : supernatural high jinks.
-- Inexperienced ghost / H.G. Wells;
-- Full fathom five / Alexander Woollcott;
-- Night the ghost got in / James Thurber;
-- Sir Tristram goes west / Eric Keown;
-- Who or what was it? / Kingsley Amis;
-- Another fine mess / Ray Bradbury;
* Christmas spirits : festive season chillers.
-- Only a dream ... / Rider Haggard;
-- Haunted house / Edith Nesbit;
-- Light in the garden / E. F. Benson;
-- Prescription / Marjorie Bowen;
-- Christmas honeymoon / Howard Spring;
-- South Sea bubble / Hammond Innes;
-- Ringing in the good news / Peter Ackroyd;
* Haunting times : tales of unease.
-- Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber;
-- Ghost / A. E. Van Vogt;
-- Party / William F. Nolan;
-- Underground / J. B. Priestly;
-- Haunted / Joyce Carol Oates;
-- Video nasty / Philip Pullman;
-- My beautiful house / Louis de Bernières.« less