Someone in the Room: Strange Tales Old and New

Written by A. M. Burrage

Dust Jacket illustration by Douglas Walters

Limited to 500 copies

ISBN: 1-899562-38-9; xiii + 307pp; Hardcover; Published November 28, 1997

Original Price: US$40.00

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This third volume in the Ash-Tree Press series collecting all of A.M. Burrage’s known supernatural fiction contains twenty-eight stories. Fourteen of the stories comprise Burrage’s rare second collection, Someone in the Room, published under the pseudonym ‘Ex-Private-X’ in 1931. Five stories are the sole original tales from the almost equally elusive Between the Minute and the Hour (1967); of the rest, seven are now collected in book form for the first time. The volume ends with two fascinating articles: one semi-autobiographical, on real-life ghosts; the second (previously uncollected) detailing Burrage’s ghost story preferences.

Contents:
  • Introduction by Richard Dalby
  • Strange Tales:
    • The House of Unrest
    • The Ivory Cards
    • The Affair at Paddock Cross
    • The Lady of the Elms
    • The Captain’s Watch
    • Little Bride-of-a-Day
    • Auntie Kate
    • Behind the Panels
    • The Black Diamond Tree
    • The Garden in Glenister Square
    • Household Gods
    • Oberon Road
    • Dark Horses
    • The Hawthorn Tree
  • Someone in the Room:
    • The Sweeper
    • The Blue Bonnet
    • The Waxwork
    • Through the Eyes of a Child
    • The Running Tide
    • The Strange Case of Dolly Frewan
    • The Oak Saplings
    • The Cottage in the Wood
    • Smee
    • The Case of Mr Ryalstone
    • Someone in the Room
    • The Shadowy Escort
    • Mr Garshaw’s Companion
    • One Who Saw
  • Non Fiction:
    • Un-Paying Guests
    • The Supernatural in Fiction