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The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories

Peter Haining

First published 1998
Publisher Carroll & Graf
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Gordon Crabb
Pages xii+482
Price $10.95
ISBN 0786705833

  • Data from second printing
  • Printing history: "First published in the UK by Robinson Publishing 1998" "First Carroll & Graf edition 1998"
  • First printing per number line
  • Cover credit per rear cover
  • Cover has "20th Century", title page has "Twentieth-Century"
  • Each story is preceded, on story title page with several paragraphs introducing author & story

Searching by ISBN: 0786705833

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories) Peter Haining Essay
5 The Third Person Henry James Novelette
41 The Presence by the Fire H. G. Wells Short Story
49 How It Happened Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
55 A Ghostly Duel Jack London Short Story
65 The Hand Theodore Dreiser Short Story
88 The Ghost of Down Hill Edgar Wallace Novelette
131 Honeysuckle Cottage P. G. Wodehouse Novelette
158 The Old Dark House (excerpt) J. B. Priestley Novelette
188 Sophy Mason Comes Back E. M. Delafield Short Story
204 In a Glass Darkly Agatha Christie Short Story
215 The Bowmen Arthur Machen Short Story
221 The Other Side of the Medal Stella Gibbons Short Story
230 Three Lines of Old French A. Merritt Short Story
255 The Lusitania Waits Alfred Noyes Short Story
262 Vengeance Is Mine Algernon Blackwood Novelette
304 We Are the Dead Henry Kuttner Short Story
311 The Escort Daphne du Maurier Short Story
330 The Elf in Algiers John Steinbeck Short Story
334 The Mirror in Room 22 James Hadley Chase Short Story
341 Is There a Life Beyond the Gravy? Stevie Smith Short Story
361 Sloane Square Pamela Hansford Johnson Short Story
370 The Leaf-Sweeper Muriel Spark Short Story
378 At the Chalet Lartrec Winston Graham Short Story
393 The Love of a Good Woman William Trevor Short Story
408 The Haunting of Shawley Rectory Ruth Rendell Short Story
428 Voices in the Coalbin Mary Higgins Clark Short Story
440 A Good Sound Marriage Fay Weldon Short Story
449 A Self-Possessed Woman Julian Barnes Short Story
467 A Programmed Christmas Carol John Mortimer (I) Short Story
478 A Figment in Time Peter Haining Short Story