Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in two collections the 1940s: Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue.

Caldecott, who only turned to fiction after retiring from the civil service, allowed his lifelong fascination with the supernatural full reign in these simple yet remarkably disturbing stories. Taking his inspiration from the master of the ghost story, M. R. James, who chilled by implication rather than by gory description, Caldecott created believable but unsettling scenarios which effectively produce a sense of unease in the reader. The mundane becomes horrific; the everyday is unnerving; and the commonplace is frightening. At last these rare forgotten gems are available once more to stir the imagination and chill the blood.

CONTENTS

NOT EXACTLY GHOSTS
1. A Room in a Rectory
2. Branch Line to Benceston
3. Sonata in D Minor
4. Autoepitaphy
5. The Pump in Thorp's Spinney
6. Whiffs of the Sea
7. In Due Course
8. Light in the Darkness
9. Descastroland
10. A Victim of Medusa
11. Fits of the Blues
12. Christmas Reunion

FIRES BURN BLUE
1. An Exchange of Notes • (1948) • short fiction by Sir Andrew Caldecott
2. Cheap and Nasty
3. Grey Brothers
4. Quintet
5. Authorship Disputed
6. Final Touches
7. What's in a Name?
8. Under the Mistletoe
9. His Name Was Legion
10. Tall Tales But True
11. A Book Entry
12. Seeds of Remembrance
13. Seated One Day at the Organ