Ghosts for Christmas

Contents vii • Foreword (Ghosts for Christmas) • (1988) • essay by Richard Dalby 1 • Our Ghost Party • (1891) • essay by Jerome K. Jerome 6 • The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens 16 • The Ghost Detective • (1865) • short story by Mark Lemon 27 • The Dead Sexton • (1871) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 45 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson 60 • The Ghost of Christmas Eve • (1890) • short story by J. M. Barrie [as by Sir James M. Barrie] 64 • The Real and the Counterfeit • (1988) • short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin [as by Louisa Baldwin] 79 • "Number Ninety" • (1895) • short story by B. M. Croker [as by Mrs. B. M. Croker] 89 • Thurlow's Christmas Story • (1894) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs 103 • Their Dear Little Ghost • (1898) • short story by Elia W. Peattie 109 • Wolverden Tower • (1896) • novelette by Grant Allen 136 • A Ghost-Child • (1906) • short story by Bernard Capes 143 • The Kit-Bag • (1908) • short story by Algernon Blackwood 154 • The Shadow • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit (variant of The Portent of the Shadow 1905) 164 • The Irtonwood Ghost • (1911) • short story by Elinor Glyn 182 • Bone to His Bone • (1912) • short story by E. G. Swain 190 • Transition • (1913) • short story by Algernon Blackwood 196 • The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance • (1913) • short story by M. R. James 209 • The Sculptor's Angel • (1913) • short story by Marie Corelli 223 • The Snow • (1929) • short story by Hugh Walpole 232 • Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage 243 • The Prescription • (1929) • short story by Marjorie Bowen 259 • The Demon King • (1931) • short story by J. B. Priestley 271 • Lucky's Grove • (1940) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield 291 • 'I Shall Take Proper Precautions' • (1945) • short story by George H. Bushnell 302 • Christmas Meeting • (1952) • short story by Rosemary Timperley 305 • Someone in the Lift • (1955) • short story by L. P. Hartley 310 • The Christmas Present • (1975) • short story by Ramsey Campbell 317 • Christmas Entertainment • (1979) • short story by Daphne Froome 326 • Gebal and Ammon and Amalek • [Father O'Connor] • (1988) • short story by David G. Rowlands