7 • Introduction (The Eighth Ghost Book) • (1972) • essay by Rosemary Timperley 11 • The Feet of Clay • (1972) • short story by Frederick Bradnum 24 • The Interrogator • (1972) • short story by George Mackay Brown 45 • The Loiterers • (1972) • short story by John Burke 60 • The Family • (1972) • short story by John Elliot 75 • Mrs G. G. • (1972) • short story by L. P. Hartley 80 • The Man Who Went Too Far • (1972) • short story by Dorothy K. Haynes 90 • A Legion Marching By • (1972) • short story by John Kippax [as by John Hynam] 101 • Terence and the Unholy Father • (1972) • short story by Kit Pedler 114 • The Search for Carloff • (1972) • short story by Maggie Ross 130 • The Terrible Stone of Chalcombe Manor • (1972) • short story by Richard Selmer 144 • Someone Dear to Me • (1972) • short story by Jean Stubbs 159 • Walk on the Water • (1972) • short story by Rosemary Timperley 172 • The Love of a Good Woman • (1972) • short story by William Trevor 186 • An Ordered Sequence of Events • (1972) • short story by James Turner 204 • The Visitation • (1972) • short story by Denys Val Baker 210 • The Homecoming • (1972) • short story by Angus Wolfe Murray