Someone in the Room: Strange Tales Old and New

This third volume in the Ash-Tree Press series collecting all of A.M. Burrage’s known supernatural fiction contains twenty-eight stories. Fourteen of the stories comprise Burrage’s rare second collection, Someone in the Room, published under the pseudonym ‘Ex-Private-X’ in 1931. Five stories are the sole original tales from the almost equally elusive Between the Minute and the Hour (1967); of the rest, seven are now collected in book form for the first time. The volume ends with two fascinating articles: one semi-autobiographical, on real-life ghosts; the second (previously uncollected) detailing Burrage’s ghost story preferences.

Contents:

• Introduction by Jack Adrian
• STRANGE TALES:
  • The House of Unrest
  • The Ivory Cards
  • The Affair at Paddock Cross
  • The Lady of the Elms
  • The Captain’s Watch
  • Little Bride-of-a-Day
  • Auntie Kate
  • Behind the Panels
  • The Black Diamond Tree
  • The Garden in Glenister Square
  • Household Gods
  • Oberon Road
  • Dark Horses
  • The Hawthorn Tree
• SOMEONE IN THE ROOM
  • The Sweeper
  • The Blue Bonnet
  • The Waxwork
  • Through the Eyes of a Child
  • The Running Tide
  • The Strange Case of Dolly Frewan
  • The Oak Saplings
  • The Cottage in the Wood
  • Smee
  • The Case of Mr Ryalstone
  • Someone in the Room
  • The Shadowy Escort
  • Mr Garshaw’s Companion
  • One Who Saw
• NON-FICTION:
  • Un-Paying Guests
  • The Supernatural in Fiction