Contents
Introduction: The View from a Grave
Elizabeth Gaskell
The Old Nurse’s Story
Amelia B. Edwards
The Phantom Coach
Charles Dickens
The Trial for Murder
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Captain of the Pole-Star
Henry James
Sir Edmund Orme
Robert W. Chambers
The Yellow Sign
Margaret Oliphant
The Library Window
W. W. Jacobs
The Monkey’s Paw
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Southwest Chamber
Rudyard Kipling
“They”
Ambrose Bierce
The Moonlit Road
W. F. Harvey
August Heat
Acknowledgments
Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
A Note on the Author
By the Same Author