Fiction pales beside fact in this anthology of such phenomena as spectral visions, phantom footsteps, and astral projections related by the masters of the genre.
Contents: • Introduction: Dancing With the Dark • (1997) • essay by Stephen Jones • My Feelings About Ghosts • (1997) • essay by Joan Aiken • Timeswitch • (1997) • essay by Sarah Ash • The Rustle in the Grass • (1997) • essay by Mike Ashley • Take Care of Grandma • (1997) • essay by Peter Atkins • Life After Death • (1985) • essay by Clive Barker • The Cartographer • (1997) • essay by Stephen Baxter • Not Quite So Pragmatic • (1985) • essay by Robert Bloch • The Nearest to a Ghost • (1997) • essay by Ramsey Campbell • Haitian Mystères • (1997) • essay by Hugh B. Cave • One-Way Trip • (1997) • essay by R. Chetwynd-Hayes • The Shock of the Macabre • (1946) • essay by A. E. Coppard • The Haunted Hotel • (1997) • essay by Basil Copper • Safe Arrival • (1997) • essay by Peter Crowther • A Gift of Eagles • (1997) • essay by Jack Dann • The House on Spadina • (1997) • essay by Charles de Lint • Sharing With Strangers • (1997) • essay by Terry Dowling • Hands on the Wheel •(1997) •by R.L. Fanthorpe (as by Lionel Fanthorpe) • The Old School Spirit • (1997) • essay by Esther M. Friesner • Twice Encountered • (1997) • essay by Gregory Frost • The Flints of Memory Lane • (1997) • short story by Neil Gaiman • In There • (1997) • essay by Stephen Gallagher • Haunted in the Head • (1997) • essay by Ray Garton • The House on the Brink • (1997) • essay by John Gordon • Riding the Nightwinds • (1997) • essay by Ed Gorman • ESP • (1974) • essay by Elizabeth Goudge • Death Is a Lady • (1997) • short fiction by Simon R. Green • The Smoke Ghost • (1997) • essay by Peter Haining • Never Say Die • (1997) • essay by Joe Haldeman • Not Very Psychic • (1992) • essay by James Herbert • Confessions of a Born-Again Heathen • (1997) • essay by Brian Hodge • To Pine With Fear and Sorrow • (1997) • essay by Nancy Holder • A Ghostly Cry • (1931) • essay by M.R. James • One Extra for Dinner • (1997) • essay by Peter James • A Face in the Crowd • (1997) • essay by Mike Jefferies • Raggedy Ann • (1997) • essay by Nancy Kilpatrick • Uncle Clayton • (1983) • essay by Stephen King • Go On, Open Your Eyes... • (1997) • essay by Hugh Lamb • Moving Houses • (1997) • essay by Terry Lamsley • Inspiration • (1997) • essay by John Landis • Norfolk Nightmare • (1997) • essay by Stephen Laws • Not Funny • (1997) • essay by Samantha Lee • The Gray Ghost • (1997) • essay by Barry B. Longyear • Witch House • (1965) • essay by H.P. Lovecraft • The Challenge • (1997) • essay by Brian Lumley • The World of the Senses • (1923) • essay by Arthur Machen • My Grandfather's House • (1997) • essay by Graham Masterton • More Than We Appear to Be • (1985) • essay by Richard Matheson • Visit to a Psychic Surgeon • (1994) • by Richard Christian Matheson • The Fall of the Wires • (1997) • essay by Paul J. McAuley • Unto the Third Generation • (1997) • essay by Anne McCaffrey • Talkin' Them Marble Orchard Blues • (1997) • by Thomas F. Monteleone • A Shadow of Tomorrow • (1997) • essay by Mark Morris • The House on Chadwell Drive • (1997) • essay by Yvonne Navarro • The Floating Table and the Jumping Violet • (1997) •by William F. Nolan • Mesmeric Revelation • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe • In the Clouds • (1996) • essay by Vincent Price • Clinic-Modern • (1997) • essay by Alan Rodgers • Magical Thinking • (1997) • essay by Nicholas Royle • De Cold, Cold Décolletage • (1997) • essay by Jay Russell • The Darkness Between the Frames • (1997) • essay by Adam Simon • The Mist People • (1997) • essay by Guy N. Smith • Mr. Cat • (1997) • essay by Michael Marshall Smith • In the Realm of the Spirits • (1997) • essay by S.P. Somtow • Chacun sa Goule • (1997) • essay by Brian Stableford • The Spirit of M. R. James • (1997) • essay by Laurence Staig • The Family Curse • (1997) • essay by Peter Tremayne • The Red Lodge • (1928) • by H. Russell Wakefield (as by H.R. Wakefield) • My Haunted Home • (1997) • essay by Lawrence Watt-Evans • The Ghost Hunters • (1997) • essay by Cherry Wilder • A Place Where a Head Would Rest • (1997) • essay by Chet Williamson • The Glowing Hand • (1997) • essay by [au...