Haunting Tales

by Barbara Ireson (Editor), Freda Woolf (Illustrator)

CONTENTS
A Long Day Without Water by Joan Aiken
Faithful Jenny Dove by Eleanor Farjeon
Fiddler, Play Fast, Play Faster by Ruth Sawyer
Hans and His Master by Ruth Manning-Sanders
Huw by Noel Lloyd and Geoffrey Palmer
Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks
John Charrington's Wedding by E. Nesbit
Master Ghost and I by Barbara Softly
The Crossways by L. P. Hartley
The Demon King by J. B. Priestley
The Doll's Ghost by F. Marion Crawford
The Ghostly Earl by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
The Magic Shop by H. G. Wells
The Man Who Didn't Believe in Ghosts by Sorche Nic Leodhas
The Twilight Road by H. F. Brinsmead
Through the Veil by Arthur Conan Doyle
Uncle Einar by Ray Bradbury

Genres: Short Stories

279 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Barbara Ireson grew up on the South Coast, took a degree in Economics at Nottingham, and then worked in Paris at the British Embassy and UNESCO. She married a university lecturer, and his career took her to several university towns, where she become intensely interested in conservation and the restoration of old buildings. Her three children have inherited this enthusiasm, and her two sons run an antiques business at Tours in France. She and her husband also live in Tours, and she is able to lend a hand in the business whilst continuing with her own writing.

She is particularly well known for her work on children's anthologies, both poetry and prose, and she has edited a number of highly praised and popular collections.

1987