The Sixth Ghost Book

by Rosemary Timperley (Editor)

Contents

7 • Introduction (The Sixth Ghost Book) • essay by Rosemary Timperley
13 • The Blood Goes Round • short story by John Elliot
30 • Casualty • short story by John Burke
44 • Death of a Ghost • short story by Avery Taylor
60 • The Drowned Rose • short story by George Mackay Brown
78 • Elsie and Agnes • short story by Richard Davis
96 • Fall in at the Double • short story by L. P. Hartley
108 • Girl Who Looked Like Barby • short story by Ernest Corbyn
125 • "I'll Wait For You" • short story by Shelley Smith
140 • Image in Capsule • short story by Kit Pedler
155 • The Judas Joke • short story by Elizabeth Fancett
177 • ... no one ever comes here in Winter • short story by James Turner
193 • Rachel and Simon • short story by Rosemary Timperley
206 • Restless Lady • short story by John Kippax [as by John Hynam]
218 • The Sale of Midsummer • short story by Joan Aiken
228 • The Shadows of the Living • short story by Ronald Blythe
252 • The Singer • short story by Winifred Wilkinson
269 • The Soldier • short story by Maggie Ross
286 • The Swinging Ghost • short story by Paul Tabori
306 • The Walking Shadow • short story by Jean Stubbs

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Rosemary Timperley (20 March 1920 - 9 November 1988) was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. She wrote a wide range of fiction, publishing 66 novels in 33 years, and several hundred short stories, but is best remembered for her ghost stories which appear in many anthologies. She also edited several volumes of ghost stories. Born in Crouch End, North London on 20 March 1920 to architect George Kenyon Timperley and teacher Emily Mary (née Lethem), she went to Hornsey High School, and before studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree in History at King's College, London, graduating in 1941. She then taught English and History at South-East Essex County Technical School in Dagenham, Essex, and also worked at Kensington Citizen's Advice Bureau during World War II. In the mid-1940s, while still working as a teacher, she started submitting short stories to magazines and newspapers, with the first, "Hot Air - and Penelope", being published in Illustrated 10 August 1946. Still writing, she left her job as a teacher to become a staff writer for Reveille magazine in 1949, editing the personal advice column (under the pen name Jane Blythe), readers' letters and writing a number of stories, feature articles and book reviews. She married Physics teacher James McInnes Cameron in 1952, and they lived together in Essex. After writing a number of novels (starting with A Dread of Burning in 1956), she left Reveille to become a freelance writer, going on to write a number of radio and television scripts. By the early 1960s she had separated from her husband, who died in 1968, but she continued writing novels, short stories and scripts until her death on 9 November 1988.[1] source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great collection of ghost stories that take the reader through every human emotion from horror to despair and everything in between. Some of these stories are more love and loss stories that happen to include a ghost or two than they are typical scary ghost stories. Each one is written with its own style and approach but they all compliment each other. Elsie and Agnes and the Soldier are particularly good ones where you don't see the endings coming and that mixes horror with the human. These stories may have been written some time ago but they haven't lost any of their impact because of it.