Table of Contents

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Body-Snacher

Guy de Maupassant
The Horla

Henry James
The Friends of Friends

W.W. Jacobs
The Monkey's Paw

M.R. James
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'

Saki (H.H. Munro)
The Open Window

Katherine Mansfield
The Daughters of the Late Colonel

P.G. Wodehouse
Honeysuckle Cottage

L.P. Hartley
W.S.

Edith Wharton
The Looking Glass

Elizabeth Bowen
The Happy Autumn Fields

Vladimir Nabokov
The Visit to the Museum

Eudora Welty
Clytie

Jorge Luis Borges
The Circular Ruins

Elizabeth Taylor
Poor Girl

Walter de la Mare
The Quincunx

Penelope Lively
Uninvited Ghosts

Alison Lurie
The Highboy

Ray Bradbury
Another Fine Mess

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.