Henry James and M. R. James head this stellar cast of great ghost story writers. The four stories by Henry James include "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes," written when he was only 24; the four by M. R. James include "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad," a masterly combination of scholarly control and antiquarian detail published in 1904. There's Oliver Onions' "The Beckoning Fair Ones," and chilling tales by the likes of Shirley Jackson, Saki, Elizabeth Bowen, V. S. Pritchett, Muriel Spark, Edith Wharton, John Cheever, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others--18 authors and 29 stories. Brad Leithauser explains these stories' bewitching powers in his astute introduction.

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