Tales From the Haunted House

There would be eight for dinner. Of course there would. Molly planned her dinner parties conscientiously. It was part of her role as a wife. But this dinner party was to be quite, quite different.The house in this opening story of R. Chetwynd-Hayes’s spine-chilling new collection of ghost stories is a perferctly normal modern one; the phantom axeman, however, haunts the stately Carlton Grange. This necessitates the services of Francis St. Clare, the self-proclaimed, world’s only practising Psychic Detective. And in Clavering ghosts still spell doom to all who dwell on the site of the old manor house.To a ghost, the setting is irrelevant. It may be one of these mansions; it may be the house on the hill, or the house next door — or maybe your house.