You couldn't ask for 22 spookier stories from authors including Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, and Guy de Maupassant. CONTENTS The Knock at the Manor Gate · Franz Kafka · Yesterday’s Witch · Gahan Wilson · A Legion Marching By · John Hynam · The Lawyer and the Ghost · Charles Dickens · The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Being Bagged · Anon. · ss School for Ghosts · Vida Derry · (adapted from a story by P’u Sung-Ling). The Little Yellow Dog · Mary Williams · The Piper at the Gates of Dawn [from The Wind in the Willows; Wind in the Willows] · Kenneth Grahame · The Lilies · Alison Prince · The Emissary · Ray Bradbury · John Pettigrew’s Mirror · Ruth Manning-Sanders · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · Miss Mountain · Philippa Pearce · Was It a Dream? (ss; “La Morte”.) · Guy de Maupassant A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · The Boys’ Toilets · Robert Westall · Left in the Dark · John Gordon · Video Nasty · Philip Pullman · Lost Hearts · M. R. James · Thurnley Abbey · Perceval Landon · Not at Home · Jean Richardson · The Shepherd’s Dog · Joyce Marsh
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Robert Westall was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England in 1929. His first published book The Machine Gunners (1975) which won him the Carnegie Medal is set in World War Two when a group of children living on Tyneside retrieve a machine-gun from a crashed German aircraft. He won the Carnegie Medal again in 1981 for The Scarecrows, the first writer to win it twice. He won the Smarties Prize in 1989 for Blitzcat and the Guardian Award in 1990 for The Kingdom by the Sea. Robert Westall's books have been published in 21 different countries and in 18 different languages, including Braille. From: http://www.robertwestall.com/
