CONTENTS Chronology of the Ghost Story 1820–1914 Introduction Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse’s Story Fitz-James O’Brien: What Was It? Edward Bulwer Lytton: The Haunted and the Haunters: or, The House and the Brain Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Cold Embrace Amelia B. Edwards: The North Mail Charles Dickens: No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-man Sheridan Le Fanu: Green Tea Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House Robert Louis Stevenson: Thrawn Janet Margaret Oliphant: The Open Door Rudyard Kipling: At the End of the Passage Lafcadio Hearn: Nightmare-Touch W. W. Jacobs: The Monkey’s Paw Mary Wilkins Freeman: The Wind in the Rose-Bush M. R. James: ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ Ambrose Bierce: The Moonlit Road Henry James: The Jolly Corner Mary Austin: The Readjustment
