Contents: 9 • Introduction (The Twelfth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) • (1976) • essay by R. Chetwynd-Hayes 15 • Escort • (1940) • short story by Daphne du Maurier 30 • Elaina • (1976) • short story by Elizabeth Fancett 33 • Twisted Shadow • (1976) • short story by Roger F. Dunkley 49 • First-Foot • (1976) • short story by Clodagh Gibson-Jarvie 53 • The Leaden Ring • (1904) • short story by Sabine Baring-Gould [as by S. Baring-Gould] 66 • That Summer • (1976) • short story by Barbara Joan Eyre 69 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott 82 • The Tunnel • (1976) • short story by Patrick Davis 97 • Ghost Stories of the Tiled House (excerpt) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu *variant of Ghost Stories of the Tiled House (1861) 99 • The Matinee • (1976) • short story by William Abney 105 • The Travelling Companion • (1973) • short story by Elizabeth Walter 119 • Summer and Miss Swanson • (1976) • short story by Rick Ferreira 125 • January Ides • (1976) • short story by Margaret Chilvers Cooper 134 • Barleyriggs • (1976) • short story by Dorothy K. Haynes 142 • From Another World • (1976) • short story by Rosemary Timperley 151 • A Little Night Fishing • short story by Sydney J. Bounds 156 • A Fairly Great Reckoning • (1976) • short story by Catherine Gleason and Rita Morris [as by Roger Malisson] 169 • Brooding Dark • (1976) • short story by Pamela Vincent 178 • Cold Fingers • (1976) • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes