A chilling collection of ghost stories containing “Rats” by M. R. James, “The Raven” and “Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Birthday of the Infanta” by Oscar Wilde, “A Tough Tussle” by Ambrose Bierce and “The Signalman” by Charles Dickens. In “Rats”, Mr. Thompson comes to regret his decision to investigate a locked room in a country inn, and in “The Signalman”, the subject of the story is haunted by ghostly appearances that always precede tragic events.
