An anthology of ghost and mystery stories designed for use at schools, complete with a set of exercises.

Contents:

• A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe
• The Spectre of Tappington [as by Thomas Ingoldsby] by Richard Harris Barham
• The Werewolf [“Krantz’s Narrative”, chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship] by Frederick Marryat
• The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain by Lord Lytton (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton]
• The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Black Veil by Charles Dickens
• The Bend of the Road by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
• The Hammer of God by G.K. Chesterton
• The Dead Hand by P.C. Wren
• My Adventure in Norfolk by A.J. Alan
• The Ancient Sin by Michael Arlen