The 14 stories in Volume One are: Canon Alberic's Scrap-book; Lost Hearts; Count Magnus; Number 13; Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad ; The Mezzotint; The Ash-tree; The Treasure of Abbot Thomas; The Rose Garden; A School Story; The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral; The Tractate Middoth; Casting the Runes and Martin's Close.
John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected... but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead... Meet John, and half a dozen more, in the second part of one of the most praised collections this century. 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS...