A review by _michelle_
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, A.N.L. Muney, L.P. Hartley, Bram Stoker, E.F. Benson, May Sinclair, Barry Pain, A.M. Burrage, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Thomas Burke, A.E. Coppard, W.W. Jacobs, F. Marion Crawford, Robert Aickman, Arthur Gray, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charles Williams, Walter Scott, Simon Raven, Henry James, Amelia B. Edwards, Hugh Walpole, E.G. Swain, Christopher Woodforde, E. Nesbit, H. Russell Wakefield, Richard Barham Middleton, William Fryer Harvey, R.A. Gilbert, Michael Cox, T.H. White, Vernon Lee, V.S. Pritchett, Edith Wharton, L.T.C. Rolt, W. Somerset Maugham, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.G. Wells

3.0

A pleasent enough read, but really a mixed bag overall. The further in the book I went, the stories seemed to get longer and less entertaining, though there were an exceptional few. Notable stories include The Tapistried Chamber; The Phantom Coach; The Judge's House; The Red Room; The Monkey's Paw; and The Clock (my personal fave) and a few other, lesser ones.. Sadly, many of the other stories are skipable. I would recomend borrowing this book or buying it second-hand. If you can find most of the listed stories in another compilation, go for it. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm crazy about the stories I thought were good, but the collection as a whole was not so great overall.

3* = "I liked it"; It could have been a better collection than it was, but the good stories redeemed it.