The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and overgrown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Here at last is an anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories. It combines a serious literary purpose with the plain intention of arousing a pleasurable fear at the doings of the dead. Including forty-two stories written between 1829 and 1968, it features works...
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With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and overgrown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Here at last is an anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories. It combines a serious literary purpose with the plain intention of arousing a pleasurable fear at the doings of the dead. Including forty-two stories written between 1829 and 1968, it features works by Walter Scott, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham and T.H. White, and such American authors as Edith Wharton, writing in the English tradition.