The First Modern Ghost Story Anthology: One Hundred Years of 'The Ghost Book' by Cynthia Asquith

In my collection Sphinxes and Obelisks (2021), I included an essay (adapted here) on The Ghost Book, Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny edited by Cynthia Asquith, which may be seen as the first modern ghost story anthology. It celebrates its centenary this month: it was published in Hutchinson’s Autumn list, in plenty of time for the traditional season of ghost story