A collection of chilling complete ghost stories. Stories include Phillipa Pearce, The Shadow-Cage; Richard Middleton, On the Brighton Road; John Gordon, If She Bends, She Breaks; A.S.Byatt, The July Ghost, H G Wells, The Red Room; George Mackay Brown, Andrina; Helen Cresswell A Kind of Swan Song; Sorche Nic Leodhas, The Man Who Didn't Believe in Ghosts; Lance Salway, The Darkness Under the Stairs; Vivien Alcock The Sea Bride.

This book is part of a book series called New Longman Literature 14-18 .

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 1990 by Pearson Education Limited .

Susan Hill is the author of many books for children, including several My Readers and her acclaimed novel Whistle in the Dark . She lives in Portland, OR.

This book has the following chapters: "The Shadow-Cage", Philippa Pearce; "On The Brighton Road", Richard Middleton; "If She Bends, She Breaks", John Gordon; "The July Ghost", A. S. Byatt; "The Red Room", H. G. Wells; "Andrina", George Mackay Brown; "A Kind of Swan Song", Helen Cresswell; "The Man Who Didn't Believe in Ghosts", Sorche Nic Leodhas; "The Darkness under the Stairs", Lance Salway; "The Sea Bride", Vivien Alcock; points for discussion and suggestions for writing; wider reading.