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

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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 
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