• Publication: Best Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 335026
• Editor: Anne Ridler
• Date: 1945-00-00
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Price:
  9/6^?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
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Cover: Best Ghost Stories by Margaret Wolpe
• Notes: Contents from The Supernatural Index. Tuck has the cover artist as "Margaret Wolfe". Assuming the correct name is the same as that of the 1957 verified printing.
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1394
  • LCCN: a46001419
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1390874
  • Reginald-1: 12240

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • Prefatory Note (Best Ghost Stories) • essay by Anne Ridler
• 9 • The Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand • short fiction by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of The Ghost of a Hand 1863)
• 18 • The Dream Woman • (1920) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman 1874) [as by W. Wilkie Collins]
• 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