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(3.61) | 4 | Peter Haining has assembled a collection of the best literary ghost stories of the century, by writers as diverse as Daphne du Maurier and John Steinbeck, Fay Weldon and John Mortimer. |
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Contains: - 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
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