The 11th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

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Houses I will accept. After all what are old houses for, but the perambulations of restless spirits, who moan, shriek, rattle chains and generally behave in the traditional manner? Therefore I can strongly recommend Aunt Cassie by Virginia Swain, who has Auntie chatting-up the dear departed and relaying their messages to the still-living – and doubting – relations. Nor could anyone take exception to The Woman’s Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood which is a nice quiet tale of a lady who finds the ghost in every room in the house. One could find worse things.

But The Ghost of U 65 by G. A. Minto has an unquiet spirit making life unpleasant for the crew of a German submarine in the First World War. Footsteps Invisible by Robert Arthur relates the fate of a man dogged by ghostly footsteps in a busy street. And Night Doings at Deadman’s by Ambrose Bierce really is a bit much. A haunted cabin where a dead Chinaman comes up from a hole in the floor, with the intention of getting his pigtail back.

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