I followed her as fast as I was able, but the wild white figure was too swift for me.

David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright and editor and is regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes. His fiction includes six novels featuring his wartime detective Johnny Hawke and six Sherlock Holmes novels - including Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Promise (2014). He is a committee member of the Crime Writers' Association, editing their monthly publication, Red Herrings, and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.

Sheridan Le Fanu

The Room in Le Dragon Volant

Madam Crowl's Ghost

Squire Toby's Will

The Child that went with the Fairies

An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

Ghost Stories of Chapelizod

The Vision of Tom Chuff



W. B. Yeats

The Curse

Hanraham's Vision



Bram Stoker

The Judge's House

The Secret of the Growing Gold



Oscar Wilde

The Canterville Ghost



Mrs J. H. Riddell

The Old House in Vauxhall Walk

A Strange Christmas Game



Fitz-James O'Brien

What was It?

The Pot of Tulips



Thomas Crofton Croker

The Haunted Cellar



Jeremiah Curtin

St Martin's Eve



Daniel Corkery

The Eyes of the Dead



Rosa Mulholland

The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly

The Ghost at the Rath