Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in the 1940s. Caldecott, who only turned to fiction after retiring from the civil service, allowed his lifelong fascination with the supernatural full reign in these simple yet remarkably disturbing stories.

Taking his inspiration from the master of the ghost story, M.R. James, who chilled by implication rather than by gory description, Caldecott created believable but unsettling scenarios which effectively produce a sense of unease in the reader. The mundane becomes horrific; the everyday is unnerving; and the commonplace is frightening. At last these rare forgotten gems are available once more to stir the imagination and chill the blood.

Contents:
NOT EXACTLY GHOSTS

• A Room in a Rectory
• Branch Line to Benceston
• Sonata in D Minor
• Autoepiphany
• The Pump in Thorp's Spinney
• Whiffs of the Sea
• In Due Course
• Light in the Darkness
• Decastroland
• A Victim of Medusa
• Fits of the Blues
• Christmas Reunion

FIRES BURN BLUE

• An Exchange of Notes
• Cheap and Nasty
• Grey Brothers
• Quintet
• Authorship Disputed
• Final Touches
• What's in a Name?
• Under the Mistletoe
• His Name was Legion
• Tall Tales but True
• A Book Entry
• Seeds of Remembrance
• Seated One Day at the Organ