Montague Rhodes James wrote of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu that he "stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories." This second Arkham House collection, following GREEN TEA and OTHER GHOST STORIES, virtually completes the reprinting of all but Le Fanu's novel-length tales of the supernatural. The book includes an introduction by August Derleth, and these stories: "The Purcell Papers, " "The Child That Went with the Fairies, " "The White Cat of Drumgunniol, " "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod, " "Stories of Lough Guir, " "A Night in the Bell Inn, " "The Dead Sexton, " "The Legend of Dunblane, " and "The Mysterious Lodger."