Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers
by Richard Dalby, Sara Maitland, E. Nesbit, Pamela Sewell, D.K. Broster, Jean Rhys, Clotilde Graves, Lady Eleanor Smith, Ruth Rendell, Margery Lawrence, Antonia Fraser, Elizabeth Fancett, A.S. Byatt, Edith Wharton, Mary Williams, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Richmal Crompton, Dorothy K. Haynes, A.L. Barker, Rosemary Pardoe, Joan Aiken, Elinor Mordaunt, Mary Butts, Celia Fremlin, Margaret Irwin, Rebecca West, Daphne du Maurier, Ann Bridge, Penelope Lively

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• Author: Richard Dalby, Sara Maitland, E. Nesbit, Pamela Sewell, D.K. Broster, Jean Rhys, Clotilde Graves, Lady Eleanor Smith, Ruth Rendell, Margery Lawrence, Antonia Fraser, Elizabeth Fancett, A.S. Byatt, Edith Wharton, Mary Williams, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Richmal Crompton, Dorothy K. Haynes, A.L. Barker, Rosemary Pardoe, Joan Aiken, Elinor Mordaunt, Mary Butts, Celia Fremlin, Margaret Irwin, Rebecca West, Daphne du Maurier, Ann Bridge, Penelope Lively
• Format: hardcover, 325 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Release date: November 1, 1992
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9780881848649 (0881848646)

About The Book

The twenty-seven women writers included here have certainly done their jobs well. You are sure to shiver while reading these well-told tales. A. S. Byatt, A. L. Barker, Richmal Crompton, Celia Fremlin, Penelope Lively, Daphne du Maurier, Ruth Rendell, and Jean Rhys are among the writers whose stories reveal the extraordinary range and development of a genre that has thrilled readers for over two hundred years. Ghosts usually take us by surprise as in Antonia Fraser’s “Who’s Been Sitting in My Car?” A single mother finds her car’s ashtray full of cigarette butts and the gas tank empty, but there’s no explanation. She soon learns of the nocturnal wanderings of her car and of the man who haunts it. In Edith Wharton’s classic story, “Afterward,” a young couple moves into a primitive country retreat, hoping to see the resident ghost. But they come to find out that it is not until afterward that you realize you’ve seen this ghost. Here lost loves, past enmities, and unwanted memories mingle with the inexplicable as unquiet souls return to repay kindnesses, settle scores, and haunt the imagination. Featuring some of the finest writers of the twentieth century, this is an absorbing, unsettling, and irresistible read. Dim the lights and open your mind to the possibilities.

Contents

ix • Preface (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2) • (1991) • essay by Richard Dalby

x • Introduction (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2) • (1991) • essay by Sara Maitland

1 • The July Ghost • (1982) • short story by A. S. Byatt

15 • With and Without Buttons • (1938) • short story by Mary Butts

27 • Don’t Tell Cissie • (1974) • short story by Celia Fremlin

39 • The Book • (1930) • short story by Margaret Irwin

52 • The Grey Men • (1927) • short story by Rebecca West

57 • The Pool • (1959) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier

81 • The Station Road • (1936) • short story by Ann Bridge

88 • Black Dog • (1978) • short story by Penelope Lively

95 • No. 17 • (1951) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]

102 • Prelude • (1991) • short story by Pamela Sewell

108 • The Pestering • (1932) • novelette by D. K. Broster

140 • I Used to Live Here Once • (1976) • short fiction by Jean Rhys

142 • A Spirit Elopement • (1991) • short story by Richard Dehan [as by Clotilde Graves]

150 • Whittington’s Cat • (1932) • short story by Lady Eleanor Smith [as by Eleanor Smith (I)]

166 • The Haunting of Shawley Rectory • (1979) • short story by Ruth Rendell

180 • Mare Amore • (1931) • short story by Margery Lawrence (variant of February: The Sailor’s Tale: Mare Amore)

194 • Who’s Been Sitting in My Car? • (1976) • short story by Antonia Fraser

204 • The Ghosts of Calagou • (1991) • short story by Elizabeth Fancett

211 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton

236 • The Thingummyjig • (1978) • short story by Mary Williams

243 • The House of Shadows • (1933) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman

250 • Rosalind • (1925) • short story by Richmal Crompton

261 • Redundant • (1991) • short story by Dorothy K. Haynes

267 • The Dream of Fair Women • (1983) • short story by A. L. Barker

279 • The Chauffeur • (1986) • short story by Rosemary Pardoe

284 • The Traitor • (1991) • short story by Joan Aiken

299 • The Landlady • (1923) • short story by Elinor Mordaunt

314 • Notes on the Authors (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2) • (1991) • essay by Richard Dalby

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