Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Preface (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories) • (1987) • essay by Richard Dalby
• xi • Introduction (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories) • (1987) • essay by Jennifer Uglow
• 1 • The Eyes • (1910) • short story by Edith Wharton
• 17 • The Violet Car • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 28 • The Crimson Blind • (1987) • short story by Mrs. H. D. Everett [as by Henrietta D. Everett]
• 39 • The Token • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair
• 49 • The Shadowy Third • (1916) • novelette by Ellen Glasgow
• 68 • The Return • (1924) • short story by Marjory E. Lambe
• 73 • The Haunted Saucepan • (1987) • short story by Margery Lawrence (variant of December: The Engineer's Story: The Haunted Saucepan 1922)
• 92 • Mr Tallent's Ghost • (1987) • short story by Mary Webb (variant of Mr. Tallent's Ghost 1926)
• 102 • The Amorous Ghost • (1926) • short story by Enid Bagnold
• 107 • The Accident • (1923) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 108 • A Persistent Woman • (1927) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 109 • The Waiting-Room • (1928) • short story by Phyllis Bottome
• 115 • The Ghost • (1928) • short story by Catherine Wells (I)
• 120 • 'Will Ye No' Come Back Again?' • (1929) • short story by Eleanor Scott
• 126 • Sophy Mason Comes Back • (1930) • short story by E. M. Delafield
• 137 • The Doll's House • (1933) • short story by Hester Gaskell Holland [as by Hester Gorst]
• 144 • The Night Nurse's Story • (1934) • short story by Edith Olivier
• 153 • The Voice of God • (1934) • short fiction by Winifred Holtby
• 160 • The Follower • (1935) • short story by Cynthia Asquith
• 164 • Miss De Mannering of Asham • (1935) • novelette by F. M. Mayor
• 183 • Roaring Tower • (1937) • short story by Stella Gibbons
• 191 • Juggernaut • (1935) • short story by D. K. Broster
• 206 • The Happy Autumn Fields • (1944) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 220 • The Empty Schoolroom • (1950) • short story by Pamela Hansford Johnson
• 233 • Three Miles Up • (1951) • short story by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• 249 • Whitewash • (1952) • short story by Rose Macaulay
• 253 • Poor Girl • (1955) • short story by Elizabeth Taylor
• 269 • On No Account, My Love • (1955) • short story by Elizabeth Jenkins
• 277 • The Mistress in Black • (1969) • short story by Rosemary Timperley
• 288 • A Curious Experience • (1971) • short fiction by Norah Lofts
• 295 • Breakages • (1978) • short story by Fay Weldon
• 303 • Dual Control • (1975) • short story by Elizabeth Walter
• 311 • Lady with Unicorn • (1987) • short fiction by Sara Maitland
• 318 • Diamond Jim • (1987) • short story by Lisa St Aubin de Terán
• 324 • Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost • (1987) • short story by Angela Carter
• 326 • Notes on the Authors (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories) • (1987) • essay by Richard Dalby