Lord Halifax's Ghost Book

A Collection of Stories, Haunted Houses, Apparitions and Supernatural Occurrences made by Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax

• Bibliographic information constructed from LOC record for #37-20187 and other sources as content holder for Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book (Castle, 1986) entries; content information is from that publication.
• Introduction is by his son (Sir Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax), but only credited to "Viscount Halifax, K.G."
• Each contained story's source is credited as follows:
  • "The Harper of Iveraray" - contributed by Mr. H. W. Hill
  • "The Man in the Iron Cage" - written by Mr. Pennyman, certified by O. Barrington
  • "The Secret of Glamis" - given by Mrs. Maclagan
  • "The Grey Man of Wrotham" - told to the Bishop at Hyeres by Mrs. Brooke
  • "The Haunting of Hinton Ampner" - made by Mary Ricketts
  • "The Death of Lord Tyrone" - written by Lady Charles Somerset about 1827
  • "The Passenger with the Bag" - unknown ("authority mislaid")
  • "'Marche!'" - sent by Colonel Butler of Plymouth, as told to him by Mr. Roderick Macfarlane
  • "The Man in a Silk Dress" - told by the Rev. Dr. Jessop
  • "The Strange Experience..." - evidently written by Mr. Spencer Nairne
  • "The Renishaw Coffin" is two stories and a note from three sources: Miss Tait, Sir George Sitwell, Lady Ida Sitwell. In contrast to the other collections, the inner title page is not a mini-TOC, the stories are not credited in place, nor are they listed separately in the main TOC.
  • "The Butler in the Corridor" - given by Sir William Hansell, K.C., ... some forty years ago
  • "The Telephone at the Oratory" - recorded by an unnamed Oratorian priest, April 2, 1919
  • Haunted Rooms
    • "The Strangling Woman" - in Lord Halifax's own writing
    • "'Here I am Again'" - from Charles G. S----, Esq., July 10, 1917
    • "Head of a Child" - sent by Lady Margaret Shelley
  • "The Woman in White" - sent by Lord Portman, December 27, 1987
  • Prophetic and Other Dreams
    • "The Corpse Downstairs" - unnamed (told in Madeira), winter 1889-1890
    • "The Murderer's Dream" - given by Lord Clinton
    • "The Mad Butler" - contributed by Lady Margaret Shelley
    • "Lady Goring's Dream" - contributed by Lady Margaret Shelley
    • "The Sexton of Chilton Polden" - contributed by Lady Margaret Shelley
    • "The Last Appearance of Mr. Bullock" - contributed by Mr. H. W. Hill
    • "The Corpse that Rose" - sent by the Reverend R. A. Kent
  • "The Footsteps..." - contributed by Mr. H. W. Hill
  • Mr. Dundas's Stories
    • "I Will Pay You All To-Morrow" - told by Mr. Charles Dundas, December 21, 1920
    • "The Haunted Bungalow" - told by Mr. Charles Dundas, December 21, 1920
  • Apparitions
    • "The Monk of Bolton Abbey" - sent by the present Marquis of Hartington, when a boy at Eton
    • "The Gentleman with the Latch-Key" - told by Lord Falmouth to Lord Grenfell, Lord Methuen, and his son, Paul (the present Lord Methuen)
    • "The Bordeaux Diligence" - unknown ("supplied no authority")
    • "The Appearance of Mr. Birbeck" - contributed by Mr. H. W. Hill
  • "The Vampire Cat" - told in letter by Mr. Everard Meynell
  • "Lord Lytton and a Horoscope" - sent by Lady Margaret Shelley
  • "Colonel P.'s Ghost Story" - Lord Halifax's own invention