A review by bronwen
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, E.F. Benson, Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, Derek Barnes, M.R. James, Marjorie Bowen, Alec Guinness, Howard Spring, Algernon Blackwood, Philip Pullman, Hammond Innes, Arthur Machen, Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Gray, A.N.L. Munby, Louis de Bernières, E.G. Swain, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alexander Woollcott, E. Nesbit, Peter Ackroyd, Fritz Leiber, Jane Gardam, William F. Nolan, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, A.C. Benson, Daphne du Maurier, A.E. van Vogt, Edith Wharton, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eric Keown, Peter Haining, Rudyard Kipling, Dennis Wheatley, H. Rider Haggard, Ray Bradbury, George Minto, H.G. Wells, Lord Dunsany
3.0
All in all, not a very inspired anthology. Many stories are tedious and many have little to do with the supernatural. Of course, I loved the M.R.James and the Edith Wharton ones, but I was expecting some new, more compelling titles.