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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 7 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 9, 2020, 978-0-9929828-3-6, £8.99, 314pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Sabine Baring-Gould] by Sydney Carter from 1920)     This volume spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _1 · Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar Littell’s Living Age February 1865 23 · The Wedding-Ring · Miles Gerald Keon · ss The Illustrated London News December 19 1857; subtitled “A Ghost Story”. 39 · All Alone on Christmas Day · James Hain Friswell · ss Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies by Hain Friswell, Richard Bentley, 1858 46 · The Ghost in the Clock Room · Hesba Stretton · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1859, uncredited. 61 · The Ghost in the Double Room · George Augustus Sala · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1859, uncredited. 75 · The Spectre’s Visit · Anne Sarah Bushby · ss The New Monthly Magazine January 1859 86 · Glámr · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas by Sabine Baring-Gould, Smith Elder and Co., 1863 99 · The Ghost Detective · Mark Lemon · ss The London Journal Christmas 1866 102 · Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning · Charlotte Riddell · ss London Society Christmas 1867 121 · The Brown Lady · Frances Cashel Hoey · na Belgravia March 1869 171 · The Phantom Flash · William Wilthew Fenn · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870; subtitled “A Christmas Mystery”. 180 · Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House · Clara Venn · ss St. James’s Magazine December 1878 192 · The Ghost of Charlotte Cray · Florence Marryat · nv Judy’s Annual 1879 210 · The Curse of the Catafalques · F. Anstey · nv The Cornhill Magazine August 1882, uncredited. 241 · “Number Ninety” · Bithia Mary Croker · ss Chapman’s Magazine December 1895 250 · A Mysterious Portrait · Mark Rutherford · ss The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford by Mark Rutherford, Trübner, 1881 258 · The Spectre of Barrochan · J. E. P. Muddock · ss Stories Weird and Wonderful by J. E. Muddock, Chatto & Windus, 1889 272 · The Old Portrait · Hume Nisbet · ss The Penny Illustrated Paper February 22 1896 277 · Old Applejoy’s Ghost · Frank Richard Stockton · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly December 1897; subtitled “A Christmas Story”. 292 · Jerry Bundler · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Windsor Magazine December 1897 300 · Bills, M.D. · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Brooklyn Life December 1898

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 8 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 21, 2020, 978-1-83826-890-9, £9.99, 308pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu])     This volume contains stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1838 and 1895. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _4 · The Comparative Study of Ghost Stories · Andrew Lang · ar The Nineteenth Century April 1885 24 · The Silver Lady · [uncredited] · nv The Keepsake 1838 52 · The Haunted Brig · [uncredited] · ss Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance February 1841 57 · A Night in a Haunted House · Henry Ferris, uncredited · nv Dublin University Magazine May 1848 89 · The Story of an Organ · [uncredited] · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine July 1851 97 · The Sword of Mauley · William D. O’Connor, uncredited · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1854 119 · The Miser’s Curse. A Veritable Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1857 131 · An Alibi · [uncredited] · ss Once a Week August 3 1861; subtitled “A Real Experience”. 139 · Bolden Tower · [uncredited] · ss The Musical Monthly and Repertoire of Literature, Drama and the Arts July 1865 147 · Falconest · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867 162 · The Spirit’s Whisper · Sheridan Le Fanu, uncredited · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867 177 · Doctor Feversham’s Story · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867 189 · The Ghost of Stanton Hall · [uncredited] · ss The New Monthly Magazine January 1868 214 · A Spirit’s Tale; or Aunt Ella’s Story · [uncredited] · ss Bentley’s Miscellany July 1868 221 · Le Vert Galant · [uncredited] · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1870 228 · The Bridal of La Guillotiere · [uncredited] · ss London Society Christmas 1875, as by O. S. T. D. 240 · The Ghost of Aldrum Hall · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1880 262 · Not Yet Solved · Ellen Wood ,[?], uncredited · ss The Argosy (UK) October 1886 270 · The Château de Keronel: A True Story · Ellen Wood ,[?], uncredited · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1887 284 · The Weird Violin · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1893 290 · The Last Saturday in August · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) September 1895

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 9 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 7, 2021, 978-1-83826-891-6, £10.99, 378pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Henry James] by John Singer Sargent from 1913)     This volume contains stories published between 1841 and 1899. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _1 · The Spook in Current Literature · Elizabeth McL. Gould Rowland · ar The Congregationalist March 16 1899 19 · Ghost Gossips at Blakesley House · William Mudford · ss Bentley’s Miscellany June 1841, as by The Author of “Stephen Dugard” 38 · George Child’s Second Love · John Yonge Akerman · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1843, as by Paul Pindar 47 · The Old House in Chancery · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal January 1851 59 · The Poor Clare · Elizabeth Gaskell · na Household Words December 13 1856 (+2), uncredited. 112 · The Dutch Officer’s Story · Catherine Crowe · ss Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858 121 · The Haunted House · Emerson Bennett · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art March 1859, as “A Ghost Story” 130 · The Four-Fifteen Express · Amelia B. Edwards · nv Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867, 1866 157 · The Romance of Certain Old Clothes · Henry James · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1868, uncredited. 176 · The Drummer Ghost · John William De Forest · nv The Atlantic Monthly July 1869, uncredited. 197 · The Haunted Enghenio · John Gladwyn Jebb · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1872 207 · Her Last Appearance · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1876, as by The Author of “Lady Audley’s Secret”, etc. 222 · The Hand on the Latch · William Wilthew Fenn · ss Time September 1881 234 · The White Woman of Slaith · Isabella Banks · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1881 254 · On Board the “Eagle” · G. L. Worrall · ss The Argosy (UK) June 1882, uncredited. 261 · Mrs. Zant and the Ghost · Wilkie Collins · nv My Lady’s Money by Wilkie Collins, Tauchnitz, 1879, as “The Ghost’s Touch” 295 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 316 · The Case of Lady Lukestan · Lettice Galbraith · nv Short Stories April 1893 336 · Lost Hearts · M. R. James · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1895 346 · The Crimson Portrait · Wilhelmina FitzClarence · ss The Lady’s Realm January 1897 359 · The Spectre of Rislip Abbey · J. E. P. Muddock · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899, as by Dick Donovan

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 10 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 8, 2021, 978-1-83826-892-3, £8.99, 284pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of William Waldorf Astor] by Hubert Von Herkomer)     This volume spans the years 1838 to 1898. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _1 · The Last Thing in Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar Once a Week January 1862 28 · The Ghost and the Bone-Setter [The Purcell Papers] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine January 1838, uncredited. 37 · The Banquet-Hall of Death · William Mudford · ss Bentley’s Miscellany March 1842, as by The Author of “Stephen Dugard” 45 · A Tale Told by the Fireside · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal May 1849 55 · A Mysterious Visitor · Ellen Wood · nv Bentley’s Miscellany October 1857 76 · The Haunted House · Margaret Verne · ss Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion September 1859 84 · Eveline’s Visitant · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss Belgravia January 1867 95 · Hu Hirwan’s Ghost · Samuel Williams · ss Overland Monthly January 1869 101 · The Ghost in the Mill · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1870, uncredited. 112 · Sister Johanna’s Story · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1872 126 · The Veiled Portrait · James Grant · ss London Society Christmas 1874 138 · The Beresford Apparition · Frederick George Lee · ss Glimpses of the Supernatural by Frederick George Lee, H.S. King, 1875 145 · A Sworn Statement · Emma Frances Dawson · ss The Wasp Christmas 1881 154 · The Rival Ghosts · Brander Matthews · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine May 1884 172 · The Ebony Frame · Edith Nesbit · nv Longman’s Magazine October 1891 183 · Her Great-Grandmother’s Ghost · Thomas Nelson Page · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1893 190 · The Invisible Playmate · William Canton · ss Good Words May 1893 202 · The Ghosts of Austerlitz · William Waldorf Astor · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1893 213 · The Phantom Model · Hume Nisbet · ss The Haunted Station by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White & Co., 1894 225 · The Library Window · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1896 266 · The Lady Tantivy · Rosa Mulholland · ss Temple Bar January 1898

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 11 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 4, 2022, 978-1-83826-893-0, £8.99, 287pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe] by Alanson Fisher)     This volume spans the years 1846 to 1901 and includes stories from solely American female authors. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _3 · Ghost Stories · [uncredited] · ar The Flag of Our Union March 1861 23 · The Haunted House in Georgia · Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet · ss Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine November 1846 32 · The Haunted House · Nancy Thorning Munroe · ss The Flag of Our Union April 1854 43 · My Visitation · Rose Terry Cooke · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1858, uncredited. 62 · The Deserted Hut · Jane Goodwin Austin · ss The Flag of Our Union November 1865; subtitled “A Ghost Story”. 74 · Kentucky’s Ghost · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1868, uncredited. 90 · The Strange Passengers · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss Lippincott’s Magazine of Literature, Science and Education June 1868 108 · Tom Toothacre’s Ghost Story · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories (var. 1) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Houghton Mifflin, 1881 115 · The Story of a Shadow · Rebecca Harding Davis · nv The Galaxy April 1872 139 · The Walking Boy · Clara Florida Guernsey · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1873, uncredited. 157 · The Haunted House by the Mill · Clara Le Clerc · ss Ballou’s Monthly Magazine December 1875; subtitled “A Texas Story”. 171 · The American Ghost · Lucretia Peabody Hale · ss Swinton’s Story-Teller #8, December 5 1883 182 · On the Stroke of the Clock · Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton · ss The Continent Weekly Magazine August 13 1884 193 · The Gray Man · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886 200 · The Giant Wistaria · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine June 1891 209 · The Soul of Rose Dédé · Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1892 219 · The Fear That Walks by Noonday · Willa Sibert Cather · ss Sombrero 1895 230 · A Transient · Annie Trumbull Slosson · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1898 244 · The Shape of Fear · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia W. Peattie, Macmillan US, 1898 250 · The Path of the Storm · Marie Van Vorst · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1899 268 · The Ordeal of Sister Cuthbert · Elizabeth Garver Jordan · ss Tales of the Cloister by Elizabeth G. Jordan, Harper, 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 12 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 4, 2022, 978-1-83826-894-7, £9.99, 317pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Richard Harris Barham])     This volume spans the years 1837 to 1901, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _3 · Family Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar Every Saturday January 1868 24 · The Spectre of Tappington · Richard Harris Barham · nv Bentley’s Miscellany February 1837, as by Thomas Ingoldsby 51 · The Old Bell-Ringer’s Story · Mark Lemon · ss The Illustrated London News December 20 1856, as by M. L. 55 · The Dead Man’s Story · James Hain Friswell · ss Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies by Hain Friswell, Richard Bentley, 1858 73 · Horror: A True Tale · John Berwick Harwood · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1861, uncredited. 95 · The Steel Mirror · William Wilthew Fenn · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867; subtitled “A Christmas Dream”. 105 · Haunted by Spirits · George Manville Fenn · ss Christmas Penny Readings by George Manville Fenn, Routledge, 1867 114 · A Strange Christmas Game · Charlotte Riddell · ss The Broadway January 1868 124 · How We Parted · Annie Hall Thomas · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1869 141 · Christmas Eve in Beach House · Eliza Lynn Linton · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870 158 · A Three-Cornered Ghost · Charles Henry Ross · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870 176 · Number Two, Melrose Square · Theo Gift · nv All the Year Round December 6 1879 (+1) 198 · Old Vanderhaven’s Will · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1880 223 · The Old House in Vauxhall Walk · Charlotte Riddell · nv Home Christmas 1880 241 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 258 · The Ghost of Christmas Eve · James Matthew Barrie · ss The St. James’s Gazette January 3 1889 261 · The Ghost of the Blue Chamber · Jerome K. Jerome · ss Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome, The Leadenhall Press, 1891 272 · Thurlow’s Christmas Story · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly December 15 1894 287 · The Baron’s Room · Ivy Hooper · ss Lucifer February 1896 295 · Their Dear Little Ghost · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Outlook October 29 1898 301 · The Ghost in the Sedan Chair · Marie Corelli · ss A Christmas Greeting by Marie Corelli, Methuen, 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 13 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, May 25, 2023, 978-1-83826-895-4, £8.99, 241pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Charles Dickens] by Daniel Maclise from 1839)     This volume contains ghost stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1841 and 1900. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _2 · On the Threatened Extinction of Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar Sharpe’s London Magazine January 1856 18 · The Heart and the Key · [uncredited] · ss Bentley’s Miscellany July 1841, as by Dalton; subtitled “A Tale of the Fens”. 37 · Haunted · [uncredited] · ss Sharpe’s London Magazine March 1860, as by J. A. 59 · The Demon Spectre · [uncredited] · ss Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper March 6 1861; subtitled “A True Ghost Story of Virginia”. 70 · Midnight at Marshland Grange · George Augustus Sala ,[?], uncredited · ss Once a Week November 21 1863 80 · Mrs. M. · [uncredited] · ss All the Year Round August 10 1867 85 · “Tremewen Grange” · [uncredited] · ss Once a Week March 2 1867, as by M. A. 92 · An American Ghost · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867 109 · Mrs. Brown’s Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867 115 · The Phantom Fourth · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867 128 · The Dead Sister · [uncredited] · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art January 30 1869, as by “A German Physician” 135 · The Tregethan’s Curse: or, The Weird Woman · [uncredited] · ss Bow Bells Annual 1871 153 · An Old Woman’s Story · [uncredited] · ss Bow Bells Novelettes June 28 1871 157 · The Haunted Mill · [uncredited] · ss The London Reader February 14 1874 164 · Stronger Than Death · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) February 1876, as by E. C. D. 177 · An Extra Passenger · [uncredited] · ss (r) 185 · Faithful Unto Death · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1887 201 · My Uncle’s Clock · [uncredited] · ss Macmillan’s Magazine January 1888 216 · The Cupboard at Wyncope Manor · [uncredited] · ss Bow Bells Novelettes September 18 1889, as by G. A. E. 221 · A Ghostly Adventure on Exmoor · [uncredited] · ss Belgravia July 1891 229 · The Phantom Picture · [uncredited] · ss The (London) Evening News July 13 1899; subtitled “A Complete Tale”.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 14 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, May 25, 2023, 978-1-83826-896-1, £9.99, 338pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Ellen Wood] by Joseph Sydney Willis Hodges)     This volume contains stories published in the first half of the Victorian age (1837-1869). 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _1 · The Supernatural in Fiction · [uncredited] · ar The Sheffield Independent March 31 1896 20 · The Blind Ghost-Seer · Abraham Elder · ss Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight by Abraham Elder, Simpkin Marshall, 1839 26 · The Souls of the Drowned · William Henry Farn · ss The Metropolitan Magazine February 1841; subtitled “A Legend of the Sea”. 36 · The Haunted House in Yorkshire · Dudley Costello · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine January 1845 50 · The Watcher · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Dublin University Magazine November 1847, uncredited. 88 · La Femme Noir · Anna Maria Hall · ss Sharpe’s London Magazine November 1848, as “The Dark Lady” 98 · The Ghost of the Late Mr. James Barber · William Henry Wills · ss Household Words #4, April 20 1850, uncredited.; subtitled “A Yarn Ashore”. 106 · The Punishment of Gina Montani · Ellen Wood · ss The New Monthly Magazine December 1851 127 · The Lumber Room · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal March 1851 150 · M. Anastasius · Dinah Maria Mulock · nv Household Words #261, March 24 1855, as “A Ghost Story”, uncredited. 180 · A Night in a Cathedral · William Fulford · ss Oxford and Cambridge Magazine May 1856 190 · The Haunted Ship · Anne Sarah Bushby · ss The New Monthly Magazine June 1857 204 · A Ghost Story · Ada Trevanion · ss Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance October 1857 215 · The Lady in the Mirror · George MacDonald · ex from Phantastes, Smith, Elder, 1858 235 · The Girl with the Golden Hair · Eliza Craven Green · ss Le Follet December 1860 242 · The Ghost of Gashleigh Court · George Augustus Sala · ss Temple Bar November 1863 262 · The Story of the House in Garden Reach · Frances Browne · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited. 270 · The Underground Ghost · John Berwick Harwood · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited. 285 · The Spectral Rout · Frances Power Cobbe · nv Shilling Magazine December 1865 307 · No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866 320 · The Scene-Painter’s Wife · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1869, as by The Author of “Lady Audley’s Secret”, etc.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 15 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, November 29, 2019, £1.99, ebook, an)     This volume contains stories published in the second half of the Victorian age (1871 to 1900).

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 15 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 21, 2023, 978-1-83826-897-8, £8.99, 281pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Robert Barr] by James Scott Stewart)     Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2019) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published in the second half of the Victorian age (1871 to 1900). 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _2 · Ghosts of Modern Fiction · [uncredited] · ex from “Spectres in Poetry and Fiction”, The Musical Monthly and Repertoire of Literature, Drama and the Arts March 1864 23 · The Spectre Hand · James Grant · ss London Society Christmas 1871 35 · Fred Temple’s Warning · Ellen Wood · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1873, as by Johnny Ludlow 59 · The Haunted House on Cambridge Common · Hezekiah Butterworth · ss Potter’s American Monthly July 1878 68 · Miss Morier’s Visions · Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1879, uncredited. 82 · The Piper’s Ghost · Isabella Banks · ss Through the Night by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, Heywood & Son, 1882 107 · Betty’s Visions · Rhoda Broughton · nv The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post December 1883 137 · A Dead Man’s Face · Frederick John Fargus · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1884, as by Hugh Conway 153 · The Brunswick Ghost · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss Cassell’s Family Magazine May 1887 160 · The Philosophy of Relative Existences · Frank Richard Stockton · ss The Century Magazine August 1892 167 · Share and Share Alike · Robert Barr · ss Black & White #24, July 18 1891 172 · The Studio · Robert Blatchford · ss Fantasias by Robert Blatchford, Clarion, 1895; subtitled “A Modern Ghost Story”. 182 · Old Gervais · Mary Louisa Molesworth · ss Studies and Stories by Mary Louisa Molesworth, Innes, 1893; subtitled “A Curious Experience”. 198 · Carleton Barker, First and Second · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Scribner’s Magazine October 1893 216 · The Double-Bedded Room · John Douglas Campbell · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine September 1894 225 · St. Martin’s Eve · Jeremiah Curtin · ss Tales of the Fairies and Ghost World by Jeremiah Curtin, 1895 230 · A “Mauvais Quart d’Heure” · Wilhelmina FitzClarence · ss Ghostly Tales by The Countess of Munster, Hutchinson, 1896 240 · The Voices of the Empty House · G. Villari · ss The Argosy (UK) February 1896 245 · The Striding Place · Gertrude Atherton · ss The Speaker June 20 1896, as “The Twins” 251 · The Shadows of the Dead · Louis Becke · ss Pacific Tales by Louis Becke, J.B. Lippincott, 1896 265 · The Creaking Board · Bithia Mary Croker · ss Cassell’s Magazine February 1912

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 16 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 23, 2019, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Margaret Oliphant] by Frederick Augustus Sandys from 1881)     This volume contains stories published between 1846 and 1901, all set at or around the Christmas period.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 16 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 21, 2023, 978-1-83826-898-5, £9.99, 318pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Margaret Oliphant] by Frederick Augustus Sandys from 1881)     Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2019) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published between 1846 and 1901, all set at or around the Christmas period. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _4 · Concerning Ghost Stories · William Samuel Lilly · ar The Nineteenth Century and After March 1902 25 · A Real Country Ghost Story · Albert Richard Smith · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1846 34 · The Pickled Ghost · [uncredited] · ss Yale Literary Magazine January 1847; subtitled “Christmas Eve”. 42 · The Phantom Face · Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton · ss My Third Book by Louise Chandler Moulton, Harper & Bros., 1859 52 · Dimsleigh Grange · Emma Watts Phillips · ss Bow Bells December 1865 62 · A Story Told in a Church · Ada Buisson · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1867 77 · My Christmas Mystery · William Kingston Sawyer · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1868 91 · The Phantom Knell · [uncredited] · ss Boys of England January 1870; subtitled “The Ghost of Wentworth Hall”. 116 · The Christmas Club · Edward Eggleston · ss Scribner’s Monthly January 1873 127 · The Hidden Shrift · Charles Maurice Davies · ss The Sheffield Independent December 19 1874 150 · An Unsolved Mystery · Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey · ss The Argosy (UK) May 1875, as by E. Owens Blackburne 157 · The Dead Man of Varley Grange · Elizabeth Anna Hart · ss 1878, uncredited. 171 · Earthbound · Margaret Oliphant · nv Fraser’s Magazine January 1880 207 · In Very Strange Company · Henry Frith · ss The Lichfield Mercury December 26 1884 231 · A Speakin’ Ghost · Annie Trumbull Slosson · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1890 253 · The Face with the Brown Spots · John Ferguson Nisbet · ss The Leamington Spa Courier December 23 1893 266 · The Deserted Kingdom · Frank Fullerton Brumback · ss The Outing Magazine January 1893 275 · The Demon Spell · Hume Nisbet · ss The Haunted Station by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White & Co., 1894 281 · The Black Lady of Doriscourt · Mabel Collins · ss The Birmingham Post December 1894 299 · Black Rudolph’s Mass · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1896 304 · My First Ghost · M. E. Greene · ss All Ireland Review December 21 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 17 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 2, 2020, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Louise Kirby Piatt] by George Peter Alexander Healy from 1855)     This volume contains stories published between 1855 and 1900, all by obscure, little-known or unidentified female authors.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 17 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 26, 2024, 978-1-73850-671-2, £9.99, 289pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Louise Kirby Piatt] by George Peter Alexander Healy from 1855)     Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2020) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published between 1855 and 1900, all by obscure, little-known or unidentified female authors. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _4 · The Supernatural in Current Fiction · [uncredited] · ar The Dundee Courier March 7 1892 16 · The Haunted House · Louise Kirby Piatt · ss The National Era December 1855, as by Mrs. Bell Smith 28 · The Ghost of Little Jacques · Anna M. Hoyt · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1863, uncredited. 52 · The White Lady · Marian Carruthers · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art March 1864 58 · The Ghost of Barstone Hall · Mary Morrison · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art #940, June 16 1866 63 · What Did Miss Darrington See? · Emma B. Cobb · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1870, uncredited. 86 · The Haunted Wherry · Esther Serle Kenneth · ss Ballou’s Monthly Magazine February 1871 92 · No. 289—A Vision · Mrs. Frank McCarthy · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1873, uncredited. 106 · Chantry Manor-House · Elizabeth Bedell Benjamin · ss Belgravia January 1876, as by Mrs. Hartley 121 · The Pin Ghost · Elizabeth T. Corbett · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1876, uncredited. 126 · A Legend of All-Hallow Eve · Georgiana S. Hull · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1879, uncredited. 153 · The Ghost of the Treasure-Chamber · Emily Arnold · nv Time December 1886 175 · The Beckside Boggle · Alice Rea · ss The Beckside Boggle by Alice Rea, T. Fisher Unwin, 1886 190 · Back from the Frozen Pole · Ellen L. Dorsey · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1887 207 · The Copeland Collection · Margaret Crosby · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1889 224 · The Mystery of Castle Crome · Sarah Catherine Budd · ss London Society January 1893 235 · The Shadow on the Moor · Lucy Hardy · ss Newcastle Weekly Courant September 1895 247 · The Seaweed Room · Clarice Irene Clinghan · ss The Black Cat June 1896 252 · A Strange Experience · Miriam Forester · ss The Argosy (UK) February 1899 261 · A Futile Ghost · Mary Reynolds · nv Crampton’s Magazine February 1899 277 · The House of the Seven Spirits · Cara Berkeley · ss The Argosy (UK) March 1900

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 18 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 2, 2020, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Guy de Maupassant] by Auguste Feyen-Perrin from 1876)     This volume contains stories published anonymously in Britain between 1842 and 1898.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 18 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 26, 2024, 978-1-73850-672-9, £8.99, 264pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Guy de Maupassant] by Auguste Feyen-Perrin from 1876)     Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2020) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published anonymously in Britain between 1842 and 1898. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _3 · Ghost Stories · [uncredited] · ar Belfast News-Letter Christmas 1896 19 · The Phantom Hag · [uncredited] · ss Twenty-Five Ghost Stories ed. W. Bob Holland, J.S. Ogilvie, 1904 22 · Legend of the Golden Leg · Thomas Miller, uncredited · ss The Odd Fellow May 1842 43 · The Death-Seer · [uncredited] · ss Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany December 1844 66 · The Phantom Face · [uncredited] · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine January 1845 72 · A Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss Illustrated Sailor’s Magazine March 1845, as by H. J. G. 77 · Apparitions · [uncredited] · ss Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country August 1846 88 · The God-Forsaken · [uncredited] · ss Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance September 1850 99 · The Ghost’s Night-Cap · [uncredited] · ss Once a Week January 7 1860, as by K. 115 · The Hall-Spectre · [uncredited] · ss Sharpe’s London Magazine December 1861 136 · The Haunted Lodge · [uncredited] · ss Sixpenny Magazine June 1866 147 · Eleanor · [uncredited] · ss The London Reader January 25 1868, as by H. F. G. 160 · Not a Dream · [uncredited] · ss Temple Bar September 1869 172 · The Mystic Handwriting · [uncredited] · ss Tinsley’s Magazine January 1870 188 · The Haunted House · [uncredited] · ss The Ladies’ Treasury and Treasury of Literature February 1870 195 · A Desperate Run · [uncredited] · ss The Mistletoe Bough Christmas 1878 205 · The Chess-Player · H. Greenhough Smith, uncredited · ss Temple Bar September 1885 228 · The Old House in Covent Garden · [uncredited] · ss Every Week: A First Class Journal of General Literature March 6 1889, as by E. B. 237 · The Brand of Cain · [uncredited] · ss Dreamland and Ghostland, Volume I, George Redway, 1887 248 · The Grange Mystery · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1896 254 · A Traveller’s Warning · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1898

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 19 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 23, 2020, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Jerome K. Jerome] by Philip Alexius de László from 1921)     This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1839 and 1900, and all set at or around the Christmas period.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 19 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 18, 2024, 978-1-73850-673-6, £9.99, 275pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Jerome K. Jerome] by Philip Alexius de László from 1921)     Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2020) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1839 and 1900, and all set at or around the Christmas period. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _3 · About Ghost Stories for Christmas · [uncredited] · ar English Society December 1870 30 · The Dead Man’s Race · William Jerdan · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1839 34 · The Ghost in the Top-Story · Frances Browne · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited. 48 · The Ghost of the Hollow Field · Ellen Wood · ss Newry Commercial Telegraph December 25 1867 71 · Asher’s Last Hour · George Manville Fenn · ss Christmas Penny Readings by George Manville Fenn, Routledge, 1867 84 · Walnut-Tree House · Charlotte Riddell · nv The Illustrated London News December 28 1878 104 · Christmas at Cairnforth · Kitty Clover · ss The Brief December 1879 116 · The Wraith of Barnjum · F. Anstey · ss Temple Bar March 1879 127 · Mansleigh Grange · Frances Collins · ss Santa Claus: Dupuy’s Christmas Annual 1881 134 · Goblet or Goblin · Edward Bradbury · ss Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald December 1882 144 · The Pearl Princess · Augustus Cheltenham · ss Berrow’s Worcester Journal December 1882 155 · What Was He? · Theo Gift · nv All the Year Round Christmas 1883 174 · Ould Skinner · Ethel Greene · ss Weekly Irish Times December 18 1886 187 · Our Ghost Party · Jerome K. Jerome · in Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome, The Leadenhall Press, 1891, as “Introductory” 192 · The Antique Bedstead · William Wilthew Fenn · ss The Penny Illustrated Magazine December 1891 198 · The Wicked Editor’s Christmas Dream · Alice Mary Vince · ss Tamworth Herald December 23 1893 203 · Lady Dorothy · Ralli West · ss Berrow’s Worcester Journal December 1894 218 · The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly December 14 1895 226 · The Blue Room · Lettice Galbraith · ss Macmillan’s Magazine October 1897 247 · Out on the Leads · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss Leeds Mercury December 1900 257 · Ghosts Who Became Famous · Carolyn Wells · ss The Century Magazine December 1900

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 20 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, March 31, 2021, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [self-portrait] by Thomas Frank Heaphy from 1831)     This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1838 and 1900.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 20 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 24, 2025, 978-1-73850-674-3, £10.99, 349pp, tp, an, cover: [self-portrait] by Thomas Frank Heaphy from 1831)     This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1838 and 1900. Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2021) anthology. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _4 · Conventional Ghost Stories · [uncredited] · ar The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal May 26 1894 21 · The Haunted House · Emma Whitehead · ss The Court Magazine March 1838 42 · Schalken the Painter [The Purcell Papers] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Dublin University Magazine May 1839, as “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter”, uncredited. 66 · The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington · Charles Ollier · ss Bentley’s Miscellany November 1841 74 · The Ghost-Seer of Tresillion · Charles Wooley · ss Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine November 1851, as by C. A. M. W. 80 · Mr. H’s Own Narrative · Thomas Frank Heaphy · ss All the Year Round October 5 1861, uncredited. 97 · The Tread of Invisible Feet · Justin McCarthy · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine February 1871, uncredited. 108 · The Haunted Rock · Charles F. F. Woods · ss Belgravia January 1871 123 · What Was Seen by Juan Valdez in Saltillo · Thomas Allibone Janvier · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1884 131 · The Dream House · Margaret Raine Hunt · ss Longman’s Magazine June 1887 149 · The Green Lady [Mr. Peregrine] · Walter Herries Pollock · ss Longman’s Magazine November 1887 165 · A Night at Ouseley Manor · Katharine Sarah Macquoid · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1890 188 · A Faded Scapular · Francis Davis Millet · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1891 202 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891 221 · The White Priest · Helene Gingold · ss Seven Stories by Helene Gingold, 1893 239 · The Empty Picture Frame · Louisa Baldwin · ss The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin, Dent, 1895 254 · At the Dip of the Road · Mary Louisa Molesworth · ss Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper January 1895 260 · A White Blot: The Story of a Picture · Henry van Dyke · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1895 277 · The Old House on Romney Marsh · Hezekiah Butterworth · ss The Hartford Courant June 1897 299 · Trooper Thompson’s Information · Bithia Mary Croker · ss Jason and Other Stories by B. M. Croker, Chatto & Windus, 1899 305 · The Ghost of Eugene Aram · Henry Augustus Hering · ss The Windsor Magazine February 1900 318 · Index · [uncredited] · ix

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 21 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 7, 2021, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Lady Margaret Maxwell Fletcher-Vane] by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle)     This volume contains stories published mostly in America between 1852 and 1899.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 21 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 25, 2025, 978-1-73850-675-0, £9.99, 292pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Lady Margaret Maxwell Fletcher-Vane] by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle)     Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2021) anthology. This volume contains stories published mostly in America between 1852 and 1899. 1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _2 · An Apology for Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar The Evening Standard September 28 1899 18 · The Haunted Well · Margaret Casson · nv Ainsworth’s Magazine July 1852 (+2) 59 · The Phantom of the Bottomless Lake · Corolla Hiacynthia Criswell · vi Peterson’s Magazine March 1854 65 · The Legend of Starved Rock · Mary W. Janvrin · vi Peterson’s Magazine December 1856 70 · Willie Johnson’s Mother: A Ghost Story · Elizabeth Sheridan Carey · nv The Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle May 1862 96 · A Dead Vashti · Louise Stockton · ss The Galaxy April 1877 104 · The Haunted Chamber · Sarah Dorr · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly August 1878 111 · The Ghost of Morcar’s Tower · Mrs. McAlpine Leny · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine July 1879 127 · Miss Pringle’s Neighbors · Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1887 144 · Thrilling Experience · Manda L. Crocker · ss The Milwaukee Journal February 1888 150 · “As Haggards of the Rock” · Mary Tappan Wright · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1890 173 · Duncan’s Ghost Story · Ada Marie Peck · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book August 1890 179 · The Soul of Marse Ralph · Mary A. P. Stansbury · ss New England Magazine November 1890 188 · Ignoto · Louise Clarkson Whitelock · ss A Mad Madonna and Other Stories by Louise Clarkson Whitelock, J. Knight Company, 1895; subtitled “A Story of Florence”. 207 · The Creeping Shadow · R. Pardepp · ss Belgravia October 1896 218 · Marm Phœbe’s Fortune · Edith Robinson · ss Penhallow Tales by Edith Robinson, Copeland and Day, 1896 231 · A Message from Beyond · Genevieve Thorndike Clark · ss The Arena April 1898 242 · The Passing of Cesare · Helen Pitkin · ss The Black Cat October 1898 252 · The Haunted Wardrobe · Margaret Vane · ss The Lady’s Realm October 1899 264 · The Blue Man · Mary Hartwell Catherwood · ss Mackinac and Lake Stories by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Harpers, 1899 274 · A South Carolina Ghost Story · Florence Howard Wingate · ss The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal May 20 1899

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 22 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 5, 2022, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Rudyard Kipling] by John Collier)     This volume contains stories published in America and Britain between 1845 and 1899. · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _ · Ghostdom · [uncredited] · ar St. James’s Magazine November 1863 · The Monomaniac · Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet · ss United States Magazine and Democratic Review October 1845 · Ghost Stories · George Washington Peck · ss American Review October 1848 · George Whitmore’s Great-Uncle · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal September 1850 · The Monktons of Wincot Abbey · Wilkie Collins · na Fraser’s Magazine November 1855 (+1) · The Sheep Farmer’s Story · Catherine Ann Crowe · nv Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858 · Four Stories · Edward Bulwer-Lytton (in error) · ts All the Year Round September 1861 · D’Outre Mort · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss The Galaxy November 15 1866 · Not a Doubt of It · William Morley Farrow · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1869 · Since I Died · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward · ss Scribner’s Monthly February 1873, as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps · The Spectre of the Hemlock Gorge · Charles W. Jay · ss My New Home in Northern Michigan and Other Tales by Charles W. Jay, W.S. and E.W. Sharp, 1874 · Under the Sheer-Legs · Henry Tinson · ss St. James’s Christmas Annual 1875 · An Antiquary’s Ghost Story · Augustus Jessopp · vi The Athenaeum January 1880 · A Curious Experience [Johnny Ludlow] · Ellen Wood · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1883, as by Johnny Ludlow · The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885 · A Dead Man’s Vengeance · William John Butterworth Bird · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine March 1888 · The Last of the Ghosts · Barrett Wendell · ss Scribner’s Magazine February 1888 · The Old House on the Cliff · William Wilthew Fenn · ss London Society December 1889 · Geordie Blair’s Luck · Birch Vye & Sydney Phelps · ss Belgravia April 1897 · The Piano Next Door · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia W. Peattie, Macmillan US, 1898 · Number 13 · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 23 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, June 8, 2023, £2.40, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Vernon Lee] by John Singer Sargent from 1881)     This volume contains stories by female authors published in America and Britain between 1842 and 1897. · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _ · Book-Talk: Ghosts · Julian Hawthorne & H. C. Walsh · br Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine August 1890; given as by Hawthorne alone. · The Necromancer, or, Ghost Versus Gramarye · Isabella Frances Romer · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1842 · The Haunted House · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal July 1852 · The Man-in-the-Moon’s Ghost Story · Rosa Almeida Chawner · ss Hits and Bits by Rosa Almeida Chawner, F. C. Wesdey, 1861 · Grandmother’s Story · Julia Bachope Goddard · ss Once a Week August 25 1866 · The Ghost of Russian Hill · Margaret Kerr Hosmer · ss The Lady’s Friend December 1868 · How Georgette Kept Tryst · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) October 1879 · A Culture-Ghost; or, Winthrop’s Adventure · Vernon Lee · nv Fraser’s Magazine January 1881 · A Stray Reveler · Emma Frances Dawson · ss The Wasp December 23 1882; subtitled “The Picture Which Was a Prophesy”. · “That Awful Face!” · Florence Marryat · ss The Weekly News December 1882 · The Ghost of Manibere Court · Louisa Grice Hutchinson · ss Temple Bar December 1884 · Miss Tweed’s Ghost Story: A Tale for the People · Sarah Doudney · ss The Sunday Times September 8 1889 · John Charrington’s Wedding · Edith Nesbit · ss Temple Bar September 1891 · Caulfield’s Crime · Alice Perrin · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1892 · The Missing Model · Lettice Galbraith · ss New Ghost Stories by Lettice Galbraith, Ward Lock, 1893 · The Stout Wooer and the Haunted Room · A. M. Stein · ss Haunted House of Ben’s Hollow and Other Ghostly Stories by A. M. Stein, J. Elliott & Co., 1894 · The Prayer · Violet Hunt · nv Chapman’s Magazine December 1895, as “The Story of a Ghost” · Whither Thou Goest · Katharine Lee Bates · ss The Chap-Book April 1896 · The Villa Lucienne · Ella D’Arcy · ss The Yellow Book July 1896 · My Fellow Travellers · Mary Angela Dickens · ss The Gentlewoman December 19 1896 · There and Here · Alice Brown · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1897

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 24 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, January 3, 2024, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: Portrait of Thomas Hardy by Reginald G. Eves from 1924)     This volume contains stories published in America and Britain between 1861 and 1901. Details taken from Table of Contents. · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _ · The Supernatural in Nineteenth Century Fiction · [uncredited] · ar Edinburgh Review April 1903 · The Ghost-Story of the Lady Who Kept a Secret · Frederick William Robinson · ex from Twelve O’Clock: A Christmas Story, Hurst & Blackett, 1861 · Poor Chips · Charles Henry Webb · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1861, uncredited. · My Old Nurse’s Story · George MacDonald · ex from “The Portent”, anonymously, The Cornhill Magazine May 1860 (+2), uncredited. · The Ghost of the State Cabin · Charles Rathbone Low · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870 · Eily’s Ghost · James Bowker · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1875 · A Debt of Honour · Charles Lawrence Young · ss London Society Christmas 1872; subtitled “A Ghost Story”. · The Haunted Rock: A Legend of Port Guerron Cove · William Wilthew Fenn · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1881 · Nut Bush Farm · Charlotte Riddell · nv Weird Stories by Mrs. J. H. Riddell, James Hogg, 1882 · A Ghost Story Without an End · Leslie Ethridge · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1886 · The House on the Corner · George Downing Sparks · ss The Australian Journal January 1888 · The Ghost at the Proscenium · Gilbert Edward Campbell · ss Mysteries of the Unseen by Sir Gilbert Campbell, Bart., Ward Lock, 1889 · The Superstitious Man’s Story · Thomas Hardy · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1891 · The Ghosts in My Tower · Frank Richard Stockton · ss The Philadelphia Inquirer December 16 1894 · The Roll Call of the Reef · Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q · The House of the Bronze Fox · Clinton Ross · ss Daily Witness June 27 1896 · The Friends of the Friends · Henry James · nv Chapman’s Magazine May 1896, as “The Way It Came” · The Story of Baelbrow [Flaxman Low] · E. & H. Heron · ss Pearson’s Magazine April 1898 · The Corpse Light · J. E. P. Muddock · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899, as by Dick Donovan · The Fifth-Mile Post · C. E. Jeffery · ss The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine November 1899; subtitled “An Indian Ghost Story”. · The Spirit of the Fjord · John Clark Shannon · ss Zylgrahof and Other Stories by John C. Shannon, Simpkin, Marshall, 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 25 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, November 26, 2024, £1.99, ebook, an)     This volume contains stories published anonymously in Britain, Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1897. Details taken from Table of Contents. · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _ · The Decline of the Ghost · [uncredited] · ar Popular Science Monthly January 1886 · The Unknown Singer: A Mystification · [uncredited] · ss Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany August 1844 · Ghost or No Ghost? · W. Harrison Ainsworth ,[?], uncredited · ss The New Monthly Magazine August 1852 · The Story of a Phantom · [uncredited] · ss Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1858 · A Photographer’s Story · [uncredited] · ss Sharpe’s London Magazine July 1861 · The Ghost’s Hand: A Christmas Story · [uncredited] · ss The New Monthly Magazine January 1864 · The Ghost of the Abbey · [uncredited] · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art September 1867 · The Phantom of Regatta Island · Charles Dickens, Jr. ,[?], uncredited · ss All the Year Round May 8 1869 · Grey Woman of the Moor · [uncredited] · ss The Australian Journal May 1885 · The Lady of the Lea · [uncredited] · ss Vanity Fair (UK) December 1888 · The Tower Ghost · [uncredited] · ss Vanity Fair (UK) December 1888 · The Ninth Window · Mary E. Braddon ,[?], uncredited · ss The Mistletoe Bough December 1888 · The Mystery of Catherine Clairville · [uncredited] · ss Whitehall Review January 1889 · A Phantom Face · [uncredited] · ss Whitehall Review February 1889 · A Ghostly Manifestation · Rev. J. C. Grey ,[?], uncredited · ss Murray’s Magazine July 1889 · The Empty Compartment · [uncredited] · ss Murray’s Magazine July 1890 · The Recess in the Wall · [uncredited] · ss Every Week Christmas 1890 · The Restless Dead · Reginald E. Horsley, uncredited · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine December 1892 · The Ghosts of Cottenal Court · E. M. · ss Every Week Christmas 1895 · The Third Traveller · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1896 · The Ghost of Sir Willopy Wite · [uncredited] · ss The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal July 1897

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 26 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 22, 2025, £1.99, ebook, an)     This volume contains stories published between 1842 and 1901. Details taken from Table of Contents. · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in _ · The Argument in Favour of Ghosts · Frederick Arnold, uncredited · ar Dreamland and Ghostland, Volume II, George Redway, 1887 · A Maltese Ghost Story · Richard Johns · ss Bentley’s Miscellany July 1842 · The Female Wrecker; and The House of Mystery · Erskine Neale · ss Bentley’s Miscellany July 1850 · An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street · J. S. Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine December 1853, as “An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in an Old House in Aungier-Street”, uncredited. · The Ghost of Dr. Harris · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ts The Nineteenth Century January 1900 · A Glimpse of the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century · Felicia Mary Frances Skene · ss Dublin University Magazine November 1861, uncredited. · The Spectre Bridegroom · Robert Hunt · ss Popular Romances of the West of England: First Series by Robert Hunt, John Camden Hotten, 1865 · To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, uncredited. · John Granger · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1870, as by The Author of “Lady Audley’s Secret”, etc.; subtitled “A Ghost Story”. · Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman · Wilkie Collins · nv Canadian Monthly August 1875 (+1), as “The Clergyman’s Confession” · The Mystery of the Cathedral of Chihuahua · Eliot Ryder · ss Ballou’s Monthly Magazine November 1882 · The Ghost Baby · Francis Romano Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1890 · The Eve of St. John in a Deserted Châlet · Frank Cowper · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine July 1891 · The Haunted Dragoon · Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1891, as by Q · Marie St. Pierre · James Hume Nisbet · ss The Haunted Station by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White & Co., 1894 · The White Villa · Ralph Adams Cram · nv Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, Stone & Kimball, 1895 · The Bruges Ghost · Wilhelmina FitzClarence · ss Ghostly Tales by The Countess of Munster, Hutchinson, 1896 · The Damerel Spectres · Alfred Henry John Cochrane · ss Longman’s Magazine January 1897 · A Last Assembling · Alice Brown · ss New England Magazine November 1898 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea · Robert Smythe Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine October 1897, as “The Man Who Was Beloved” · Between Darkness and Dawn · Elizabeth Garver Jordan · ss Harper’s Bazar March 30 1901

Questionable Practices by Eileen Gunn (Small Beer Press, March 11, 2014, 978-1-61873-075-6, $16.00, 276pp, tp, co, cover by Fu Wenchao)     Collection of one poem and 16 stories, two original; this includes four collaborations with Michael Swanwick and one with Rudy Rucker. E-book also available. Details taken from online listing. · Up the Fire Road · Eileen Gunn · nv Eclipse One ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007 · “Chop Wood, Carry Water” · Eileen Gunn · nv · No Place to Raise Kids · Eileen Gunn · ss Flurb #3, Spring/Summer 2007 · The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree · Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn · nv Tor.com December 21 2010 · To the Moon Alice · Eileen Gunn · pm Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #22, June 2008 · Speak, Geek · Eileen Gunn · vi Nature #7105, August 24 2006 · Hive Mind Man · Rudy Rucker & Eileen Gunn · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2012 · Thought Experiment · Eileen Gunn · ss Eclipse Four ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2011 · “Shed That Guilt! Double Your Productivity Overnight!” · Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September 2008 · A Different Engine · Eileen Gunn · ss Tor.com October 28 2010 [Ref. William Gibson & Bruce Sterling] · Day After the Cooters · Eileen Gunn · ss Tor.com October 29 2010 [Ref. Howard Waldrop] · The Perdido Street Project · Eileen Gunn · ss Tor.com November 1 2010 [Ref. China Miéville] · Internal Devices · Eileen Gunn · ss Tor.com November 2 2010 [Ref. K. W. Jeter] · The Armies of Elfland · Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction April/May 2009 · Michael Swanwick and Samuel R. Delany at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area, March 2005 · Eileen Gunn · ss Foundation Winter 2007 · Zeppelin City · Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick · nv Tor.com October 6 2009 · Phantom Pain · Eileen Gunn · ss

Stable Strategies & Others by Eileen Gunn (Tachyon Publications, September 2004, 1-892391-18-X, $14.95, xvi+206pp, tp, co, cover by John D. Berry)     Collection of 12 stories, two original. Foreword by William Gibson, afterword by Howard Waldrop, and a poem by Michael Swanwick. xi · She’s the Business · William Gibson · fw xv · The Secret of Writing · Eileen Gunn · in xvii · Hooray for Eileen! · Michael Swanwick · pm 3 · Stable Strategies for Middle Management · Eileen Gunn · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1988 19 · Fellow Americans · Eileen Gunn · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine December 1991 37 · Computer Friendly · Eileen Gunn · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1989 59 · The Sock Story · Eileen Gunn · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September 1989 63 · Coming to Terms · Eileen Gunn · ss 73 · Lichen and Rock · Eileen Gunn · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1991 89 · Contact · Eileen Gunn · ss Proteus ed. Richard S. McEnroe, Ace, 1981 103 · What Are Friends For? · Eileen Gunn · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories November 1978 113 · A Recipe for Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp · Eileen Gunn · ms The Bakery Men Don’t See, SF3, 1991 117 · Spring Conditions · Eileen Gunn · ss Tales by Moonlight ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Robert T. Garcia, 1983 125 · Nirvana High · Eileen Gunn & Leslie What · nv 151 · Green Fire · Eileen Gunn, Andy Duncan, Pat Murphy & Michael Swanwick · nv Event Horizon January 18 1999 (+1) 203 · Afterwards · Howard Waldrop · aw

Breaking Point by James Gunn (Walker & Co., 1972, 0-8027-5552-6, $4.95, vi+182pp, hc, co) ii · Translations · [uncredited] · ms 1 · Introduction · James Gunn · in 4 · Breaking Point · James Gunn · na Space Science Fiction March 1953 52 · A Monster Named Smith · James Gunn · nv If July 1954 79 · Cinderella Story · James Gunn · ss Vanguard Science Fiction June 1958, as “When the Shoe Fits” 96 · Teddy Bear · James Gunn · ss Worlds of Fantasy v1 #2, 1970 115 · The Man Who Owned Tomorrow · James Gunn · ss Argosy July 1953 124 · Green Thumb · James Gunn · nv If April 1957 147 · The Power and the Glory · James Gunn · ss If December 1969, as “The Man Who Would Not” 155 · The Listeners [Listeners] · James Gunn · nv Galaxy Science Fiction September 1968

The Burning by James E. Gunn (Dell, February 1972, 0-440-00861-1, 95¢, 154pp, pb, n., cover by Robert Foster) [John Wilson]     Fix-up novel based on three previously-published stories. · Witches Must Burn [John Wilson] · James E. Gunn · nv Astounding Science Fiction August 1956 · Trial by Fire [John Wilson] · James E. Gunn · na If February 1969 · Witch Hunt [John Wilson] · James E. Gunn · na Galaxy Science Fiction April 1969

Crisis! by James Gunn (Tor, May 1986, 0-812-53944-3, $2.95, 219pp, pb, n.)     Sf novel composed of a series of episodes which appeared separately. 11 · Man in the Cage · James Gunn · pr 13 · The End of the World [Bill Johnson] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact January 1984 45 · Child of the Sun [Bill Johnson] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact March 1977 83 · Man of the Hour [Bill Johnson] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact October 1984 125 · Touch of the Match [Bill Johnson] · James Gunn · ss Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact February 1985 155 · Woman of the Year [Bill Johnson] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact April 1985, as “Mother of the Year” 189 · Will-of-the-Wisp [Bill Johnson] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact May 1985

The Dreamers by James Gunn (Simon & Schuster, January 1981, 0-671-25280-1, $10.95, 166pp, hc, n., cover by Lisa Falkenstein)     Novel comprising three stories, one previously published, and four pieces of linking material. · The Mnemonist I · James Gunn · lk · The Historian · James Gunn · nv · The Mnemonist II · James Gunn · lk · The Volunteer · James Gunn · na Triax ed. Robert Silverberg, Pinnacle, 1977, as “If I Forget Thee” · The Mnemonist III · James Gunn · lk · The Dreamer · James Gunn · na · The Mnemonist IV · James Gunn · lk

The End of the Dreams by James Gunn (Scribners, September 1975, 0-684-14352-6, $6.95, xv+202pp, hc, co, cover by Bob Strimban) ix · Introduction · James Gunn · in 1 · Space Is a Lonely Place [Amos Danton] · James Gunn · na Venture Science Fiction May 1957 61 · The Joy Ride · James Gunn · na Startling Stories Fall 1955, as “The Naked Sky” 143 · The Immortal [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1958

Future Imperfect by James Gunn (Bantam, January 1964, J2717, 40¢, 137pp, pb, co, cover by Paul Lehr) 1 · The Misogynist · James Gunn · ss Galaxy Science Fiction November 1952 9 · The Last Word · James Gunn · ss 17 · Little Orphan Android · James Gunn · nv Galaxy Science Fiction September 1955 46 · The Stilled Patter · James Gunn · ss Infinity Science Fiction June 1956 53 · Skin Game · James Gunn · ss Venture Science Fiction January 1958 61 · Every Day Is Christmas · James Gunn · nv Super-Science Fiction February 1957 81 · The Girls Who Were Really Built · James Gunn · ss Fantastic June 1958, as “Neosho’s Choicest” 90 · Survival Policy [Malachi Jones] · James Gunn · nv Astounding Science Fiction October 1952, as by Edwin James 113 · Tsylana · James Gunn · nv Galaxy Science Fiction March 1956 132 · Feeding Time · James Gunn · ss Astounding Science Fiction August 1955

Gift from the Stars by James Gunn (BenBella Books, December 2005, 1-932100-65-2, $14.95, 154pp, tp, n.) [Adrian Mast]     SF fix-up novel of first contact originally published as five novellas (one somewhat altered) in Analog. The author’s preface discusses how the novel was inspired as a response to Carl Sagan’s Contact. Introduction by Gregory Benford. 1 · Preface · James Gunn · pr 3 · Introduction · Gregory Benford · in 7 · The Giftie [Adrian Mast] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact September 1999 35 · Pow’r [Adrian Mast] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact January 2000 61 · The Abyss [Adrian Mast] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact July/August 2000 85 · The Rabbit Hole [Adrian Mast] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact December 2001 109 · Uncreated Night and Strange Shadows [Adrian Mast] · James Gunn · na Analog Science Fiction and Fact January/February 2005

Human Voices by James Gunn (Five Star US, August 2002, 0-7862-4317-1, $23.95, 344pp, hc, co, cover by Vincent Di Fate) [edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman]     Collection of 14 stories. Packaged and edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Ed Gorman. 11 · Introduction · James Gunn · in 16 · The Old Folks · James Gunn · ss Nova 2 ed. Harry Harrison, Walker US, 1972 38 · The Voices [Listeners] · James Gunn · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1972 71 · Fault · James Gunn · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact June 1975 84 · Guilt · James Gunn · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May/June 1978 109 · Child of the Sun [Bill Johnson] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact March 1977 145 · The North Wind · James Gunn · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 26 1981 165 · Among the Beautiful Bright Children · James Gunn · nv The Dreamers by James Gunn, Simon & Schuster, 1981, as “The Historian” 197 · The Futurist · James Gunn · ss Amazing Stories November 1993 226 · Man of Parts · James Gunn · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 1985 237 · The Gingerbread Man · James Gunn · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact March 1995 249 · The Day the Magic Came Back · James Gunn · ss Science Fiction Age January 1996 265 · The Lens of Time · James Gunn · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact October 1995 279 · The End-of-the-World Ball · James Gunn · nv Synergy: New Science Fiction, Vol. 4 ed. George Zebrowski, Harvest, 1989 307 · The Giftie [Adrian Mast] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact September 1999

The Immortals by James Gunn (Bantam, November 1962, J2484, 40¢, 154pp, pb, co, cover by Mitchell Hooks) 1 · New Blood [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Astounding Science Fiction October 1955 27 · Donor · James Gunn · nv Fantastic, Stories of Imagination November 1960 56 · Medic [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Venture Science Fiction July 1957, as “Not So Great an Enemy” 106 · Immortal [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1958

The Immortals (var. 1) by James Gunn (Pocket, September 2004, 0-671-53486-6, $12.00, xiii+301pp, tp, co)     Revised from the Bantam (1962) edition with the addition of a fifth story, a new introduction by Greg Bear, and a fascinating preface by Gunn. v · Introduction · Greg Bear · in vii · Preface · James Gunn · pr 3 · New Blood [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Astounding Science Fiction October 1955 45 · Donor · James Gunn · nv Fantastic, Stories of Imagination November 1960 93 · Elixir [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact May 2004 149 · Medic [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Venture Science Fiction July 1957, as “Not So Great an Enemy” 227 · Immortal [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1958

The Joy Makers by James E. Gunn (Bantam, March 1961, A2219, 35¢, 160pp, pb, n., cover by William Hofmann)     Fix-up novel based on three previously-published stories. · The Unhappy Man · James E. Gunn · nv Fantastic Universe February 1955 · The Naked Sky · James E. Gunn · na Startling Stories Fall 1955 · Name Your Pleasure · James E. Gunn · na Thrilling Wonder Stories Winter 1955

The Listeners by James E. Gunn (Charles Scribner’s Sons, October 1972, 0-684-13013-0, $6.95, vii+275pp, hc, n., cover by Jerry Thorp) [Listeners]     Fix-up novel based on six stories, five previously-published. 3 · Robert MacDonald—2025 [Listeners] · James E. Gunn · nv Galaxy Science Fiction September 1968, as “The Listeners” 48 · George Thomas—2027 [Listeners] · James E. Gunn · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1972, as “The Voices” 92 · William Mitchell—2028 [Listeners] · James E. Gunn · nv Galaxy Science Fiction May 1971, as “The Message” 140 · Andrew White—2028 [Listeners] · James E. Gunn · nv Galaxy Science Fiction January/February 1972, as “The Answer” 203 · Robert MacDonald—2058 [Listeners] · James E. Gunn · nv 250 · The Computer—2118 [Listeners] · James E. Gunn · nv Galaxy Science Fiction May/June 1972, as “The Reply”

Some Dreams Are Nightmares by James Gunn (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974, 0-684-13779-8, $6.95, xx+220pp, hc, co) ix · Introduction · James Gunn · in 1 · The Cave of Night · James Gunn · ss Galaxy Science Fiction February 1955 25 · The Hedonist · James Gunn · na Thrilling Wonder Stories Winter 1955, as “Name Your Pleasure” 121 · New Blood [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Astounding Science Fiction October 1955 157 · Medic [Dr. Russell Pearce] · James Gunn · nv Venture Science Fiction July 1957, as “Not So Great an Enemy”

Station in Space by James E. Gunn (Bantam, September 1958, A1825, 35¢, 160pp, pb, co) 1 · The Cave of Night · James E. Gunn · ss Galaxy Science Fiction February 1955 15 · Hoax [Amos Danton] · James E. Gunn · nv If December 1955 42 · The Big Wheel · James E. Gunn · nv Fantastic Universe September 1956 71 · Powder Keg [Amos Danton] · James E. Gunn · nv If April 1958 112 · Space Is a Lonely Place [Amos Danton] · James E. Gunn · na Venture Science Fiction May 1957

The This Fortress World by James E. Gunn (Ace Double, May 1957, D-223, 35¢, 190pp, pb, n., cover by Ed Emshwiller)     Reprint (Gnome Press 1955) SF novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with 13th Immortal by Robert Silverberg.

The Unpublished Gunn, Part One by James Gunn (Chris Drumm Books, June 1992, 0-936055-52-9, $4.00, 44pp, ph, oc)     Original collection of four previously unpublished stories, with an introduction by the author. 3 · Introduction · James Gunn · in 6 · Sane Asylum · James Gunn · nv 28 · Judgment Day · James Gunn · vi 30 · Broken Record · James Gunn · vi 34 · The Black Marble · James Gunn · ss