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Peter Haining has written and edited a number of bestselling books on the supernatural, notably the widely acclaimed Ghosts: The Illustrated History (1975) and A Dictionary of Ghosts (1982), which has been translated into several languages including French, German, Russian and Japanese. A former journalist and publisher, he lives in a sixteenth- century timber frame house in Suffolk that is haunted by the ghost of a Napoleonic prisoner of war. The Mammoth Book of HAUNTED HOUSE STORIES Edited by Peter Haining CARROLL & GRAF PUBLISHERS New York For my daughter GEMMA - who has lived in a haunted house all her life "When I was dead, my spirit turned To seek the much-frequented house." Christina Rossetti, 1866 "In general, ghosts are a plus point in marketing a house, either for sale or as a tourist attraction." Daily Telegraph, 25 June 1994 Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii THE HAUNTED HOUSE by Elizabeth Albright and Ray Bradbury 1 FOREWORD 3 1 HAUNTED PLACES: Stories of Fact and Fiction THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS Edward Bulwer-Lytton 9 AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF A HAUNTED HOUSE Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 39 A CASE OF EAVESDROPPING Algernon Blackwood 53 A HAUNTED HOUSE Virginia Woolf 69 GHOST HUNT H. Russell Wakefield 73 DARK WINNER William F. Nolan 81 2 AVENGING SPIRITS: Tales of Dangerous Elementals THE OLD HOUSE IN VAUXHALL WALK Charlotte Riddell 89 NO. 252 RUE M. LE PRINCE Ralph Adams Cram 109 THE SOUTHWEST CHAMBER Mary Eleanor Freeman 125 THE TOLL-HOUSE W. W. Jacobs 145 FEET FOREMOST L. P. Hartley 157 HAPPY HOUR Ian Watson 191 3 SHADOWY CORNERS: Accounts of Restless Spirits THE ANKARDYNE PEW W. F. Harvey 217 THE REAL AND THE COUNTERFEIT Louisa Baldwin 231 A NIGHT AT A COTTAGE . . . Richard Hughes 249 THE CONSIDERATE HOSTS Thorp McClusky 253 THE GREY HOUSE Basil Copper 265 WATCHING ME, WATCHING YOU Fay Weldon 309 4 PHANTOM LOVERS: Sex and the Supernatural A SPIRIT ELOPEMENT Richard Dehan 329 THE HOUSE OF DUST Herbert de Hamel 339 THE KISSTRUCK BOGIE A. E. Coppard 357 MR EDWARD Norah Lofts 367 HOUSE OF THE HATCHET Robert Bloch 385 NAPIER COURT Ramsey Campbell 403 5 LITTLE TERRORS: Ghosts and Children LOST HEARTS M. R. James 423 THE SHADOWY THIRD Ellen Glasgow 435 A LITTLE GHOST Hugh Walpole 461 THE PATTER OF TINY FEET Nigel Kneale 477 UNINVITED GHOSTS Penelope Lively 489 6 PSYCHIC PHENOMENA: Signs from the Other Side PLAYING WITH FIRE Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 497 THE WHISTLING ROOM William Hope Hodgson 513 BAGNELL TERRACE E. F. Benson 533 THE COMPANION Joan Aiken 547 THE GHOST HUNTER James Herbert 557 COMPUTER SEANCE Ruth Rendell 563 7 HOUSES OF HORROR: Terror Visions of the Stars IN LETTERS OF FIRE Gaston Leroux 573 THE JUDGE'S HOUSE Bram Stoker 593 THE STORM McKnight Malmar 613 THE WAXWORK A. M. Burrage 627 THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST H. G. Wells 641 SOPHY MASON COMES BACK E. M. Delafield 655 THE BOOGEYMAN Stephen King 669 APPENDIX: Haunted House Novels: A Listing 683
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