The Clock Strikes Twelve

Note! The 1940 UK edition collected 14 stories from the 1930s. The 1946 Arkham House edition added 4 stories for a total of 18 and an essay by Wakefield. The 1961 Ballantine paperback reprint, "Stories From The Clock Strikes Twelve", included only 13 stories. The 1998 Ash-Press edition, "The Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories", reprints the essay and the 18 stories from the Arkham House edition and adds 3 additional stories.

Contents (1998 edition):

• Introduction by Barbara Roden
• Why I Write Ghost Stories (essay) by H. Russell Wakefield
• Into Outer Darkness
• The Alley
• Jay Walkers
• Ingredient X
• I Recognised the Voice
• Farewell Performance
• Not Quite Cricket
• In Collaboration
• A Stitch in Time
• Lucky's Grove
• Red Feathers
• Happy Ending?
• The First Sheaf
• Masrur
• A Fishing Story
• Used Car
• Death of a Poacher
• Knock! Knock! Who's There?
• From the Vasty Deep
• Out of the Wrack I Rise
• A Black Solitude