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A Little Companion

Angus Wilson

First published 1975
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"A forty-seven-year-old woman, who considers that she has come to a calm and practical acceptance her "old maid" status, is visited by the mischievous and changeable spirit of a child who calls her Mummy, and wants always to race her home." (Carol Tulpar)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1975 Cover The Haunted and the Haunters: Tales of Ghosts and Other Apparitions The Bodley Head Anthology 100
September 1975 Cover The Haunted and the Haunters: Tales of Ghosts and Other Apparitions Farrar, Straus and Giroux Anthology 113
1979 Cover Twice-Told Tales: An Anthology of Short Fiction Houghton Mifflin Anthology 340
1983 Cover Haunting Tales Beaver Books Anthology 80