The 10th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

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Experience has taught me that people like three ingredients in a collection of ghost stories. Fear, to make them shudder, pathos to make them shed the occasional tear, and humour to dilute the other two. But of course the greatest of these must be fear.

The ghosts that walk the pages of John Hastings Turner’s The House in the Wood are not of the usual variety, for they have wandered from the land of What-Should-Have-Been, instead of What-Has-Been. All of us have walked beneath the evergreen trees in that nostalgic country and sought vainly for our still-born ghosts in the melancholy twilight. Mr Turner’s conducted tour is well worth your attendance.

Fear, by P. C. Wren, would seem a strange departure for the author of Beau Geste, but in fact this gifted writer wrote many ghost stories, of which, in my opinion, this is one of the best. From the moment we enter that lonely bungalow the atmosphere is heavy with menace.

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