Great Ghost Stories ed. Harrison Dale (Herbert Jenkins, 1930, 7/6d, 399pp, hc)
Anthology of 15 ghost stories with an informative introduction by the editor.
- 5 · The Art of the Ghost Story · Harrison Dale · in 1930
- 35 · Wandering Willie’s Tale · Sir Walter Scott · ex from Redgauntlet, Constable, 1824
- 63 · The Old Nurse’s Story · Mrs. Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited.
- 97 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited.
- 118 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited.; original version.
- 177 · Madam Crowl’s Ghost · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · ss All the Year Round December 31 1870, uncredited.
- 199 · The Cedar Closet · Lafcadio Hearn · ss The Enquirer March 1 1874
- 214 · Thrawn Janet · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Cornhill Magazine October 1881, as by R. L. S.
- 230 · Teig O’Kane and the Corpse · translated by Dr. Douglas Hyde · ss Legends of Saints and Sinners ed. Douglas Hyde, Talbot Press, 1915
- 250 · The Lady’s Maid’s Bell · Edith Wharton · nv Scribner’s Magazine November 1902
- 284 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885
- 317 · The Mummy’s Foot · Théophile Gautier; translated by Lafcadio Hearn · ss New Orleans Item June 16 1878 (+1)
translated from the French (“Le Pied de Momie”, Musée de Familles, September 1840).
- 336 · Maese Pérez, the Organist · Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer; translated by Rollo Ogden · nv Modern Ghosts, Harper's, 1890
translated from the Spanish (“Maese Pérez, el organista (Leyenda sevillana)”, El Contemporaneo, December 1861).
- 354 · The Tall Woman · Pedro de Alarcón; translated by Rollo Ogden · nv Modern Ghosts, Harper's, 1890
translated from the Spanish (“La mujer alta”, Narraciones inverosímiles, 1881).
- 376 · The Corpse the Blood-Drinker · P’u Sung-Ling, uncredited; translated by George Soulié · ss Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures by George Soulie, Constable, 1913
- 381 · The Story of Ming-Y · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn, Roberts Bros., 1887
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