The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvelous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H.G. Wells, M. R. James, T.H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever. "Handsome Oxford collection of spooks...plenty of flesh-creeping matter here."-- The Times "The perfect book for long winter evenings of drawn curtains and flickering firelight."-- Books and Bookmen "An excellent cross-section of familiar and unfamiliar stories."-- New Stateman "Some of the best and scariest ghost stories ever written."-- Cosmopolitan "A wonderful cross-section of the familiar and less well-known."-- Oxford Times "Excellent collection of famous and less known authors illustrates the variety of this very English genre."-- The Times "All in all, this is a remarkably well-chosen selection."-- Sunday Telegraph "All in all, this is a remarkably well-chosen selection."-- Sunday Telegraph Presents the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories ever written Michael Cox was formerly Senior Commissioning Editor of Reference Books, at Oxford University Press.