Contents
Editor’s Note
Ghosts—Treat Them Gently!
Ghost Stories
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book
Lost Hearts
The Ash-tree
Count Magnus
The Mezzotint
Number 13
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Casting the Runes
Martin’s Close
Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance
The Rose Garden
A School Story
The Tractate Middoth
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
An Episode of Cathedral History
The Diary of Mr. Poynter
The Residence at Whitminster
Two Doctors
The Uncommon Prayer-book
The Five Jars
I: The Discovery
II: The First Jar
III: The Second Jar
IV: The Small People
V: Danger to the Jars
VI: The Cat, Wag, Slim and Others
VII: The Bat-Ball
VIII: Wag at Home
The Haunted Dolls’ House
A Neighbor’s Landmark
After Dark in the Playing Fields
There Was a Man Dwelled by a Churchyard
A View from a Hill
A Warning to the Curious
An Evening’s Entertainment
Wailing Well
Rats
The Experiment: A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story
The Malice of Inanimate Objects
A Vignette
The Bulbul and the Cuckoo: An Indian Folk Tale
Stories I Have Tried to Write
A Night in King’s College Chapel
The Fenstanton Witch
John Humphreys
Marcilly-le-Hayer
The Game of Bear
Speaker Lenthall’s Tomb
Merfield House
Living Night
Some Remarks on Ghost Stories
Afterword: “The Stony Grin of Unearthly Malice” by Stephen Jones