Ghosts for Christmas

Contents

Foreword (Ghosts for Christmas) essay by Richard Dalby
1. Our Ghost Party (1891) essay by Jerome K. Jerome
2. The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (1836) short story by Charles Dickens
3. The Ghost Detective (1865) short story by Mark Lemon
4. The Dead Sexton (1871) short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
5. Markheim (1885) short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The Ghost of Christmas Eve (1890) short story by J. M. Barrie
7. The Real and the Counterfeit short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin
8. "Number Ninety" (1895) short story by B. M. Croker
9. Thurlow's Christmas Story (1894) short story by John Kendrick Bangs
10. Their Dear Little Ghost (1898) short story by Elia W. Peattie
11. Wolverden Tower (1896) novelette by Grant Allen
12. A Ghost-Child (1906) short story by Bernard Capes
13. The Kit-Bag (1908) short story by Algernon Blackwood
14. The Shadow (1910) short story by E. Nesbit (variant of The Portent of the Shadow 1905)
15. The Irtonwood Ghost (1911) short story by Elinor Glyn
16. Bone to His Bone (1912) short story by E. G. Swain
17. Transition (1913) short story by Algernon Blackwood
18. The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (1913) short story by M. R. James
19. The Sculptor's Angel (1913) short story by Marie Corelli
20. The Snow (1929) short story by Hugh Walpole
21. Smee (1929) short story by A. M. Burrage
22. The Prescription (1929) short story by Marjorie Bowen
23. The Demon King (1931) short story by J. B. Priestley
24. Lucky's Grove (1940) short story by H. Russell Wakefield
25. 'I Shall Take Proper Precautions' (1945) short story by George H. Bushnell
26. Christmas Meeting (1952) short story by Rosemary Timperley
27. Someone in the Lift (1955) short story by L. P. Hartley
28. The Christmas Present (1975) short story by Ramsey Campbell
29. Christmas Entertainment (1979) short story by Daphne Froome
30. Gebal and Ammon and Amalek short story by David G. Rowlands