Story Sources

The following gives the publication details for each story and the sources used. They are listed in chronological order of first publication.

‘The Whisper in the Wood’ by Anon, first published in All the Year Round , December 11, 1880.

‘Man-Size in Marble’ by E. Nesbit, first published in Home Chimes , December 1887 and collected in Grim Tales (London: Innes & Co, 1893).

‘The Striding Place’ by Gertrude Atherton, first published as ‘The Twins’ in The Speaker , Vol. 13, June 1896.

‘The Man Who Went Too Far’ by E. F. Benson, first published in Pall Mall , June 1904.

‘An Old Thorn’ by W. H. Hudson, first published in The English Review , May 1911.

‘The White Lady of Rownam Avenue, Near Stirling’ by Elliot O’Donnell, first published in Scottish Ghost Stories (London: Kegan Paul & Co, 1911).

‘Ancient Lights’ by Algernon Blackwood, first published in The Eye-Witness , Vol. 3 No. 4, July 1912, and collected in Ten Minute Stories (London: John Murray, 1914).

‘The Name-Tree’ by Mary Webb, first published in The English Review , December 1921.

‘The Tree’ by Walter de la Mare, first published in The Riddle and Other Stories (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1922).

‘“He Made a Woman—”’ by Marjorie Bowen, first published in Seeing Life and Other Stories , (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1923).

‘A Neighbour’s Landmark’ by M. R. James, first published in The Eton Chronicle , March 17, 1924.

‘N’ by Arthur Machen, first published in The Cosy Room and Other Stories (London: Rich & Cowan, 1936).