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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chronology of the Ghost Story 1820 – 1914
Introduction
GHOST WORDS
THE HAUNTERS
HAUNTINGS
THE HAUNTED
LAYING THE GHOST
NOTES
Further Reading
Bibliographical Studies
Books and Essays on Ghost Stories and the Supernatural by Contemporary Practitioners
Literary Criticism on the Ghost Story
Literary Theory and the Figure of ‘the Ghost’
Some Histories of Ghosts
Studies in the History of Spiritualism
Some Useful Biographical Works
A Note on the Texts
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
ELIZABETH GASKELL: The Old Nurse’s Story
FITZ-JAMES O’BRIEN: What Was It?
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON: The Haunted and the Haunters: or, The House and the Brain
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON: The Cold Embrace
AMELIA B. EDWARDS: The North Mail
CHARLES DICKENS: No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-man
SHERIDAN LE FANU: Green Tea
PROLOGUE: Martin Hesselius, the German Physician
CHAPTER I: Dr Hesselius Relates How He Met the Rev. Mr Jennings
CHAPTER II: The Doctor Questions Lady Mary, and She Answers
CHAPTER III: Dr Hesselius Picks Up Something in Latin Books
CHAPTER IV: Four Eyes were Reading the Passage
CHAPTER V: Doctor Hesselius is Summoned to Richmond
CHAPTER VI: How Mr Jennings Met His Companion
CHAPTER VII: The Journey: First Stage
CHAPTER VIII: The Second Stage
CHAPTER IX: The Third Stage
CHAPTER X: Home
CONCLUSION: A Word for Those Who Suffer
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Thrawn Janet
MARGARET OLIPHANT: The Open Door
RUDYARD KIPLING: At the End of the Passage
LAFCADIO HEARN: Nightmare-Touch
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W. W. JACOBS: The Monkey’s Paw
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MARY WILKINS FREEMAN: The Wind in the Rose-Bush
M. R. JAMES: ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’
AMBROSE BIERCE: The Moonlit Road
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HENRY JAMES: The Jolly Corner
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MARY AUSTIN: The Readjustment
EDITH WHARTON: Afterward
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Glossary of Scots Words
Biographical and Explanatory Notes
Footnotes
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
PAGE 153
PAGE 156
LAFCADIO HEARN
PAGE 225
M. R. JAMES
PAGE 263
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