- Publication: Best Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 1042329
- Editor: Anne Ridler
- Date: 1964-00-00
- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Pub. Series: Faber Paper Covered Editions
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Price: 6/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
- Pages: 360
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Format: tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Webpages: archive.org-1, archive.org-2
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Notes: Info from Archive.org copy. "Reprinted mcmlxi and mcmlxiv" on copyright page. Front flap: "(BEST GHOST STORIES is also available in a cloth-bound edition at 16s net)".
Anthology Title:
Best Ghost Stories • (1945) • anthology by Anne Ridler
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 9 • Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand • (1931) • short fiction by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of The Ghost of a Hand 1863) [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
- 18 • The Dream Woman • (1874) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman)
- 47 • The Friends of the Friends • (1896) • novelette by Henry James
- 78 • Who Knows? • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
- 93 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
- 127 • The Triumph of Night • (1914) • novelette by Edith Wharton
- 157 • Lost Hearts • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
- 169 • The House Surgeon • (1909) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
- 198 • The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
- 213 • The Face • (1924) • short story by E. F. Benson
- 230 • With Intent to Steal • [Jim Shorthouse] • (1906) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
- 257 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
- 261 • Crewe • (1929) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
- 290 • The Tool • (1928) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
- 305 • Blind Man's Hood • (1937) • short story by John Dickson Carr [as by Carter Dickson]
- 328 • Our Feathered Friends • (1931) • short story by Philip MacDonald
- 340 • The Apple Tree • (1931) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
- 354 • Thus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • short story by John Collier