Marie O’Regan is a British Fantasy Award-nominated horror and dark fantasy writer and editor. She has served as the Chair of the British Fantasy Society, and has at times edited both their publications,
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The Mammoth Book of
Ghost Stories
by Women
Edited by
MARIE O’REGAN
Constable & Robinson Ltd
55–56 Russell Square
London WC1B 4HP
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Copyright © Marie O’Regan, 2012 (unless otherwise stated)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Field of the Dead
Collect Call
Dead Flowers by a Roadside
The Shadow in the Corner
The Madam of the Narrow Houses
The Lost Ghost
The Ninth Witch
Sister, Shhh . . .
The Fifth Bedroom
Scairt
Seeing Nancy
The Third Person
Freeze Out
Return
Let Loose
Another One in from the Cold
My Moira
Forget Us Not
Front Row Rider
God Grant That She Lye Still
The Phantom Coach
The Old Nurse’s Story
Among the Shoals Forever
Afterward
A Silver Music
Biographies