Herbert Van Thal - Told In The Dark

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Herbert Van Thal (ed) - Told In The Dark (Pan, 1950).

Mrs. Molesworth - The Shadow In The Moonlight
Phyllis Bentley - Beckermonds
Elizabeth Braddon - The Mystery At Fernwood
E. F. Benson - The Thing In The Hall
Wilkie Collins - The Dead hand
Marjorie Bowen - The Prescription
Catherine Crowe - The Italian's Story
Ann Bridge - The Accident
Charles Dickens - The Signal-man
Mrs. Riddell - Old Mrs. Jones
Sir Hugh Walpole - The Silver Mask

A very safe selection favouring the Victorian era with a couple of contemporary authors thrown in. High on atmosphere, low on gore, but nothing you'll not have come across before (especially if you collect Hugh Lamb or Richard Dalby). Commendably, there is a definite slant toward including work by female authors, and it seems as though Herbert was making a conscious attempt to prove that ghost stories at their best are works of "serious" literature - whatever that is.