Hello,
I'm still rather new to this forum and I don't quite have a feel for just where things should be posted, so forgive me if I post this in a couple of places on this board.
Apologies also to anyone who gets this message on othergroups.
It has been suggested on Haunted_Bookshelf (yahoo group for ghost story discussion) that we might try to kickstart that group again. Some of the moderators (I think) may be members here, and I hope I'm not treading on anyone's toes by posting this message.
For those of you who have not come across Haunted_Bookshelf before, it is a group for discussion of specific stories, usually one or two a fortnight or so (IIRC). The groups was really quite active in its early days, but has been quiescent for a couple of years.
Previously the discussions had taken place around easily available classic anthologies of ghost stories, the Aickman fontana's featuring prominantly.
Given the sad news about Michael Cox's passing, the wonderful Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories which he co-edited with RA Gilbert might be an appropriate choice of anthology for discussion. That doesn't however preclude the possibility of chosing another collection
If anyone is interested, please take a look at
groups.yahoo.com/group/Haunted_Bookshelf/I'll paste in the TOC for the Cox & Gilbert Oxford anthology at the end of this message.
Cheers - Chris
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories ed. Michael Cox & R. A. Gilbert (Oxford
University Press 0-19-214163-5, Oct '86, £12.95, 504pp, hc); Anthology.
ix · Introduction · Michael Cox & R. A. Gilbert · in
1 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake, 1829, 1828;
Weird Tales Sep '26
13 · The Phantom Coach · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas,
1864
25 · Squire Toby's Will · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Temple Bar Jan, 1868
51 · The Shadow in the Corner · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss All the Year Round
Sum, 1879
69 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv The Broken Shaft: Unwin's
Christmas Annual, ed. Sir Henry Norman, London: Fisher Unwin, 1886
87 · A Wicked Voice · Vernon Lee · nv Hauntings, Fantastic Stories, London:
Heinemann, 1890
109 · The Judge's House · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves Dec 5, 1891
125 · Man-Size in Marble [1886] · E. Nesbit · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
137 · The Roll-Call of the Reef · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler
Jun, 1895
150 · The Friends of the Friends ["The Way It Came"] · Henry James · nv Chap
Book May, 1896
172 · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · ss The Idler Mar, 1896
180 · The Monkey's Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper's Monthly Sep '02
190 · The Lost Ghost · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss Everybody's Magazine May '03
205 · "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" · M. R. James · nv Ghost
Stories of an Antiquary, Edward Arnold, 1904
222 · The Empty House [Jim Shorthouse] · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Empty
House, Eveleigh Nash, 1906
236 · The Cigarette Case · Oliver Onions · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller Aug 13 '10
247 · Rose Rose · Barry Pain · ss The London Magazine May '10
253 · The Confession of Charles Linkworth · E. F. Benson · ss The Cavalier Jan
13 '12
266 · On the Brighton Road · Richard Middleton · ss The Ghost Ship, Unwin, 1912
270 · Bone to His Bone · E. G. Swain · ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales, W.
Heffer: Cambridge, 1912
277 · The True History of Anthony Ffryar [as by Ingulphus] · Arthur Gray · ss
The Cambridge Review Feb 16 '11
283 · The Taipan · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Pearson's Magazine Oct '22
289 · The Victim · May Sinclair · nv The Criterion Oct '22
307 · A Visitor from Down Under · L. P. Hartley · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia
Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
322 · Fullcircle · John Buchan · ss Atlantic Monthly Jun '20
335 · The Clock · William F. Harvey · ss The Beast With Five Fingers, J.M. Dent,
1928
339 · Old Man's Beard · H. Russell Wakefield · ss Old Man's Beard, Bles, 1929
354 · Mr. Jones · Edith Wharton · ss Ladies Home Journal Apr '28
377 · Smee [as by Ex-Private X] · A. M. Burrage · ss Nash's Pall Mall Magazine
Dec '29
387 · The Little Ghost · Hugh Walpole · ss The Red Book Magazine Oct '22
399 · Ahoy, Sailor Boy! · A. E. Coppard · ss Dunky Fitlow Tales, London: Cape,
1933
410 · The Hollow Man · Thomas Burke · ss Colliers Oct 14 '33
421 · Et in Sempiternum Pereant · Charles Williams · ss The London Mercury Dec
'35
430 · Bosworth Summit Pound · L. T. C. Rolt · ss Sleep No More, Constable, 1948
438 · An Encounter in the Mist · A. N. L. Munby · ss The Alabaster Hand and
Other Ghost Stories, Dennis Dobson, 1949
444 · Hand in Glove · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Second Ghost Book, ed. Cynthia
Asquith, James Barrie, 1952
453 · A Story of Don Juan · V. S. Pritchett · ss, 1941
458 · Cushi · Christopher Woodforde · ss A Pad in the Straw, Dent, 1952
465 · Bad Company · Walter de la Mare · ss A Beginning and Other Stories,
London: Faber, 1955
471 · The Bottle of 1912 · Simon Raven · ss The Compleat Imbiber, ed. Cyril Ray,
Putnam, 1961
477 · The Cicerones · Robert Aickman · ss Travellers By Night, ed. August
Derleth, Arkham, 1967
487 · Soft Voices at Passenham · T. H. White · ss The Maharajah and Other
Stories, Macdonald, 1981
495 · Notes · Misc. Material · bi
500 · Select Bibliography · Misc. Material · bi
