The Haunted and the Haunters: Tales of Ghosts and Other Apparitions

by Kathleen Lines (Compiler)

Contents • Foreword (The Haunted and the Haunters: Tales of Ghosts and Other Apparitions) • essay by Kathleen Lines • The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1859) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton • The Bloody Hand • short story by uncredited • Rats • (1929) • short story by M. R. James • It Was Rose Hall • short story by Petronella Breinburg • Running Wolf • (1920) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood] • The Wind in the Portico • (1928) • novelette by John Buchan • A Little Companion • (1950) • short story by Angus Wilson • The Cat "I Am" • (1944) • short story by Gerald Heard • Violence • (1913) • short story by Algernon Blackwood • Entrance and Exit • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood • As Gay As Cheese • (1956) • short story by Joan Aiken • Miss Hinch • (1911) • novelette by Henry Sydnor Harrison [as by H. S. Harrison] • The Legend of Clare Friary • (1962) • short story by Lady Barker • The Markhampton Miracle • (1952) • short story by Cyril Hare • The Second Death • (1947) • short story by Graham Greene • Many Coloured Glass • (1970) • short story by L. M. Boston [as by Lucy M. Boston] • The Riddle • (1903) • short story by Walter de la Mare • Balaam • (1954) • short story by Anthony Boucher • Vindicae Flammae • (1944) • short story by Gerald Heard

275 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

Kathleen Mary Lines was a book critic, editor, anthologist and librarian from Canada. An expert on children's literature, she wrote, compiled, and edited Four to Fourteen (1950) for the National Book League. She also wrote the introduction to the second edition of F. J. Harvey Darton's Children's Books in England (1958) and edited a series of illustrated fairy tale picture books. Artists for the picture books included Edward Ardizzone for the Bodley Head. Lines was also the general editor of the Bodley Head Monographs and edited Lavender's Blue (1954), a selection of classic nursery rhymes illustrated by Harold Jones. The book won a Carnegie special commendation.[2]

Reviews

[Alex Jones]

Mostly uninteresting.

[Matthew Harwood]

An interesting collection of paranormal stories. None of the stories leave you with chills, but it is an easy enough read.