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.