Richard Dalby – Virago Book Of Ghost Stories 2006

Richard Dalby (ed.) – The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories (Virago, 2006)

Cover illustration: Tina Mansuwan at CIA

Inside cover blurb:
Bringing together vintage tales from the outstandingly successful Virago anthologies The Virago Book of Ghost Storied (Volumes I and II) and Victorian Ghost Stories, comes this chilling new omnibus.
Lost loves, past enmities and unwanted memories mingle with the inexplicable as unquiet souls return to repay kindnesses, settle scores and haunt the imagination.
Featuring some of the finest writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these stories gather to haunt and horrify — an irresistible read for those with a taste for being spooked.

Preface – Richard Dalby

Charlotte Bronte – Napoleon And The Spectre
Elizabeth Gaskell – The Old Nurse’s Story
Amelia B. Edwards – The Story Of Salome
Mrs Henry Wood – Reality Or Delusion?
Charlotte Riddell – The Old House In Vauxhall Walk
Margaret Oliphant – The Open Door
Ella D’Arcy – The Villa Lucienne
Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman) – The Vacant Lot
E. Nesbit – The Violet Car
Edith Wharton -The Eyes
May Sinclair – The Token
Richmal Crompton – Rosalind
Margery H. Lawrence – The Haunted Saucepan
Margaret Irwin – The Book
F. M. Mayor – Miss De Mannering Of Asham
Ann Bridge – The Station Road
Stella Gibbons – Roaring Tower
Elizabeth Bowen – The Happy Autumn Fields
Rosemary Timperley – The Mistress in Black
Celia Fremlin – Don’t Tell Cissie
Antonia Fraser – Who’s Been Sitting In My Car
Ruth Rendell – The Haunting Of Shawley Rectory
A. S. Byatt – The July Ghost
A. L. Barker – The Dream Of Fair Women
Penelope Lively – Black Dog
Rosemary Pardoe – The Chauffeur
Lisa St. Aubin De Teran – Diamond Jim
Angela Carter – Ashputtle
Elizabeth Fancett – The Ghost Of Calagou
Joan Aikin – The Traitor
Dorothy K. Haynes – Redundant

Notes on the authors

Jeremy Scott – At Close of Eve

Jeremy Scott (ed.) – At Close of Eve: An Anthology of New Curious Stories (Jarrolds, 1947)

James Hanley – A Walk in the Wilderness
G.W. Stonier – Table for Two
Pamela Hansford Johnson – Sloan Square
Louis Marlow – Time Can Frisk
Affleck Graves – Catch ‘Em Round the Bend
John Atkins – The Souls That Got Mixed Up
Stevie Smith – Is There life Beyond the Gravy?
James Laver – The Chateau of the Singing Stream
Reginald Moore – The One Who Was Waiting
Dorothy K. Haynes – Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch…
David Green – Nine Days’ Wonder
Elizabeth Berridge – The Autograph
John Heath-Stubbs – The Swan
Fred Urquhart – Sailors, Beware of Witches
Norah Lofts – Mr Edward
L.J. Daventry – Autumnal Equinox
Inez Holden – Free Wheel
William Montgomerie – Berlin Fantasia
Phyllis Shand Allfrey – The Eyrie
Frank Baker – Art Thou Languid?
Julian Orde – The Florist
William Sansom – Crabfroth

Thanks to Alan Frackelton for providing the contents and cover scan!

Giles Gordon – Scottish Ghost Stories

Giles Gordon (ed) – Scottish Ghost Stories (Senate, 1996: Lomond, 2000: originally published as Prevailing Spirits: A Book of Scottish Ghost Stories (Hamish Hamilton,  1976: Panther, 1977: Grafton, 1986.)

Forbes Bramble – Holiday
George MacKay Brown – Beliah
Elspeth Davie – The Foothold
James Allan Ford – A Kind of Possession
Antonia Fraser – Who’s Been Sitting in My Car
Clifford Hanley – The Haunted Chimley
Dorothy K. Haynes – The Curator
Angus Wolfe Murray – The Curse of Mathair Nan Uisgeachan
Robert Nye –  Randal
Iain Crichton Smith – The Brothers
Fred Urquhart – Proud Lady in a Cage
Gordon Williams – The Horseshoe Inn

Cover shown is the Lomond edition. Thanks to Steve Goodwin for providing info on the early publishing history.