Channel Crossing

A fractious family goes on Holiday attempting to carry on as usual. However, thoughts of murder stalk their passing thoughts. 

Christina

A woman grieving from the death of a close friend travels to the countryside to recover. She takes a room in a large house at the end of a small village. In the garden, she begins seeing a little girl calling for a lost kitten whose appearance Mrs. Crozier, the housekeeper, at first dismisses...

Dead Man of Varley Grange, The

Decoy, The

"The Decoy" was first published in an anthology entitled: The Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories, 1921. --- Noelle

Reading Link: "The Decoy", available in the collection _The Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories_ by Algernon Blackwood, available at Project Gutenberg.

Dream Woman, The

Emissary, The

Esmeralda

Family, The

First published in The Eighth Ghost Book, edited by Rosemary Timperley, 1972.

Firmin Child, The

Grey Ones, The

Inexperienced Ghost, The

Judge's House, The

Versions were produced for CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Fear on 4, Hall of Fantasy, and Haunted.

Keeping His Promise

Lamp, The

Late Departure, The

Legal Rites

Liberated Tiger, The

Listen to the Silence

Mary sits alone in her room wishing for a companion. She listens to the quiet around her, refusing to turn on her radio. One night she hears a voice from beyond the grave... 

Little Girl Lost

Mrs. Grove's husband died sometime ago, but that doesn't stop her from talking to him nightly, a habit which her daughter-in-law finds disturbing. The only one who believes grandma is little Janet, who believes there's nothing wrong in conversing with the dead. 

Mists of Memory

Only Child

Pair of Hands, A

To Kill a Ghost

Based on the Elisabeth Sanxay Holding short story "The Strange Children".

Walk on the Water

On a summer outing to the seaside, young Rachel meets a strange man whose only words to her are: "Hello." As she grows up, the same man haunts her during periods of great change in her life. 

First published in The Eighth Ghost Book, edited by Rosemary Timperley, 1972.

What Was It?

July 1854. Harry Crown, author of The History of Supernaturalism, takes a room at a Mrs Moffatt's boardinghouse, a building that has a reputation for being haunted. After only a month, however, Harry is disappointed to discover there is nothing supernatural about the property. He settles into a routine of discussing abstract philosophical thoughts with Dr Stephen Hammond, while they both get high on opium (purely for science, mind you), until the night when...

With Peter Marinker [Harry Crown], Blane Fairman [Doctor Stephen Hammond], and Helen Horton [Mrs Moffatt].

See also: "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant and "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce.

Reading Link: "What Was It?", by Fitz James O'Brien, as part of a collection of ghost stories entitled "Famous Modern Ghost Stories", 1921, available at Project Gutenberg.

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