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  • Publication: Further Stories from Lord Halifax's Ghost BookPublication Record # 286156
  • Editor: Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax
  • Date: 1937-00-00
  • Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
  • Pages: xi+171
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Notes:
    • Stories not included in Lord Halifax's Ghost Book for various reasons. For some, the provenance is unknown. Some were previously published elsewhere.
    • Bibliographic information constructed from LOC record for #38-30780 and other sources as content holder for Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book (Castle, 1986) entries; content information is from that publication.
    • Foreword is by his son (Sir Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax), but only credited to "Viscount Halifax, K.G."
    • Foreword notes that "The Countess of Belvedere" is not a ghost story
    • Each contained story's source is credited as follows:
      • "Shrieks in the West Room of Flesbury" - written by the sister of John Carnsen [EFLW notes Carnsen should probably be Carnsew]
      • "The Shrouded Watcher" - unnamed, taken from Blackwood's Magazine for January, 1891 [where the author is not identified]
      • Apparitions
        • "The Ghostly Passenger" - from a Yorkshire friend, who was told it by Captain Wintour four years ago
        • "The Fawn Lady of Burton Agnes" - sent by Mrs. Wickham-Boynton in 1915
        • "The Page Boy of Hayne" - told by Lady Ferguson Davie in 1885
        • "The Ghost of Lord Conyers Osborne" - told by the Bishop of Winchester [EFLW notes Bishop Harold Browne] November 16, 1884
        • "The Ghost of Lady Carnarvon" - told by the Bishop of Winchester [EFLW notes Bishop Harold Browne] November 16, 1884
        • "The Ghost of Bishop Wilberforce" - uncertain [EFLW notes seems to be Bishop Browne on November 16, 1884 occasion]
        • "The Ship in Distress" - uncredited
        • "The Widow in the Train" - possibly told by Colonel Ewart
        • "Killed in Action" - uncredited
      • "The Troubled Spirit of Tintern Abbey" - 'E. B', privately printed in 1910
      • "Labédoyère's Doom" - Canon Malcolm MacColl, appeared in January, 1882 Fraser's Magazine
      • Haunted Houses
        • "Exorcism at St. Donat's Castle" - sent by Mr. Charles G. Stirling, as told by Mr. X----- in 1917
        • "What the Gardener Saw" - sent by Mrs. J. Rawlinson Ford, February, 1914
        • "Three in a Bed" - unknown (an old favourite with Lord Halifax)
        • "The Simla Bungalow" - sent by his sister, Mrs. Dundas, from her granddaughter, in 1925
        • "The Cardinal of Waverley Abbey" - sent by Mrs. Anderson in 1925
      • Ghostly Guardians
        • "'Someone by his Side'" - Mrs. Ford of Carnforth had this story from her mother-in-law
        • "Bishop King's Escape" - sent by Miss A. E. Nash
      • "Two Friends" - told by Mr. Augustus Hare
      • Dreams and Portents
        • "The Spanish Knife" - told by the Rt. Hon. A. Beresford Hope
        • "'Turn to the Right!'" - uncredited
        • "President Lincoln's Dream" - unknown ("How Lord Halifax obtained it, he does not divulge.")
        • "John Arthington's Escape" - sent by Mrs. Ford of Carnforth
        • "Two Submarines" - apparently sent by Ruth, Countess of Chichester
        • "The Fighting Rooks and the Black Mouse" - sent by the Rev. the Hon. Francis R. Grey in 1880
        • "Lord Decies' Ring" - told by Mr. Beresford Hope in December, 1874, from his uncle, Lord Decies
        • "The Death of Lord Hastings" - Miss Copley's account, sent by Aunt Maria [EFLW notes wife of Henry, 3rd Earl Grey]
      • "The Rustling Lady of Lincoln and Other Stories" - sent by Miss Nash to EFLW ("the present Lord Halifax")
      • Some Curious Stories
        • "The Bloody Hand" - uncredited
        • "The 'Tweenie'" - sent by Commander Francis Cadogan in 1920
        • "Warning for a Submarine" - sent by Commander Francis Cadogan in 1920, told by the officer commanding the Mediterranean flotilla in 1919
      • "The Restless Dead" - unnamed, taken from Blackwood's Magazine for December, 1892 [where the author is not identified]; written in the person of Rev. Charles Power
      • "The Countess of Belvedere" - unknown ("...without any indication of how or from whom Lord Halifax obtained it")
  • External IDs:
Anthology Title: Further Stories from Lord Halifax's Ghost Book • anthology by Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax

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