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