This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked.

The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural.

There are stories from distant lands - Fisher's Ghost by John Lang is set in Australia and A Ghostly Manifestation by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta.

In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

Contents:

• The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
• The Spectre of Tappington by Richard Harris Barham
• The Botathen Ghost by R.S. Hawker
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
• The Story of Mary Ancel by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Story of the Bagman's Uncle by Charles Dickens
• To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens
• An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Fisher's Ghost by John Lang
• The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
• The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards
• Eveline's Visitant by Miss Braddon
• Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Man-Size in Marble by Edith Nesbit
• The Canterville ghost by Oscar Wilde
• The Haunted Doll's House by Montague Rhodes James
• A School Story by Montague Rhodes James
• Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
• In the Cliff Land of the Dane by Howard Pease
• Laura by Saki (H.H. Munro)
• An Appendix of Three True Ghost Stories
  • Story of Euphemia Hewit by James Hogg
  • A Ghostly Manifestation by A Clergyman
  • Correspondence on 'A ghostly manifestation' by A Clergyman
  • Ghost in the tower by Edmund Lenthal Swifte