The romance of certain old clothes ; The friends of the friends ; Maud-Evelyn ; Sir Edmund Orme / Henry James — Casting the runes ; "Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad" ; Mr Humphreys and his inheritance ; Count Magnus / M. R. James — Miss Mary Pask ; The looking glass / Edith Wharton — Poor girl / Elizabeth Taylor — The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions — The open window / Saki — Hand in glove ; The demon lover ; The cat jumps / Elizabeth Bowen — The clock / W. F. Harvey — The tooth / Shirley Jackson — A story of Don Juan / V. S. Pritchett — The Portobello Road / Muriel Spark — Three miles up / Elizabeth Jane Howard — The tower / Marghanita Laski — The Buick Saloon / Ann Bridge — The axe / Penelope Fitzgerald — Torch song ; The music teacher / John Cheever — The July ghost / A. S. Byatt — Ancient music / Philip Graham.