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Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories

Philippa Pearce

First published 1995
Publisher Oxford University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Frederick Smallfield
Pages xx+348
Price £17.99
ISBN 0192126059

Year Reviewer Publication
1996 Barbara Roden All Hallows, February 1996

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 A School Story M. R. James Short Story
7 Out of the Sea A. C. Benson Short Story
18 Manfred's Three Wishes H. F. W. Tatham Short Story
23 The Light in the Dormitory William J. Wintle Short Story
32 Miss Jemima Walter de la Mare Novelette
52 Johnny Double Arthur Machen Short Story
58 Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep Eleanor Farjeon Short Story
70 The Tiger-Skin Rug Lucy Boston Short Story
84 Elisabeth the Cow Ghost William Pène du Bois Short Story
87 Georgie Robert Bright Short Fiction
89 All in the Night's Work David Severn Short Story
96 Richard Christopher Woodforde Short Story
102 The Wee Ghostie Alison Uttley Short Story
106 The Haunted Trailer Robert Arthur Short Story
122 The House That Lacked a Bogle Sorche Nic Leodhas Short Story
128 The January Queen Pamela Ropner Short Story
138 Brownie R. Chetwynd-Hayes Short Story
151 The Ghost of Top Wood Michael Kenyon Short Story
155 The Old White Ghost and the Old Grey Granddad Dorothy Edwards Short Story
159 Looking for a Ghost Margaret Mahy Short Story
164 At the River-Gates Philippa Pearce Short Story
170 Somebody Lives in the Nobody House Ruth Park Short Story
180 The Ghostly Goat of Glaramara J. S. Leatherbarrow Short Story
188 She Was Afraid of Upstairs Joan Aiken Short Story
195 The Extinguished Lights Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Story
200 Who's a Pretty Boy, Then? Jan Mark Short Story
208 Uninvited Ghosts Penelope Lively Short Story
213 The Bride Farrukh Dhondy Short Story
223 Ivor George Mackay Brown Short Story
233 Siren Song Vivien Alcock Short Story
237 The Tower Aidan Chambers Short Story
251 The Guitarist Grace Hallworth Short Story
253 A Grave Misunderstanding Leon Garfield Short Story
255 Ghost Trouble Ruskin Bond Short Story
265 Spirits of the Railway Paul Yee Short Story
269 Many Happy Returns! Barbara Griffiths Short Story
275 The Beach Robert Westall Short Story
285 Across the Fields Susan Price Novelette
301 The Clearing Tim Wynne-Jones Short Story
312 The Burning Baby John Gordon Short Story
325 Biographical Notes (Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories) uncredited Essay
346 Acknowledgements (Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories) uncredited Essay
ix Introduction (Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories) Philippa Pearce Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories Cover 1996 Oxford University Press Hardcover Anthology Frederick Smallfield xx+348