About the Book
Note! The 1940 UK edition collected 14 stories from the 1930s. The 1946 Arkham House edition added 4 stories for a total of 18 and an essay by Wakefield. The 1961 Ballantine paperback reprint, "Stories From The Clock Strikes Twelve", included only 13 stories. The 1998 Ash-Press edition, "The Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories", reprints the essay and the 18 stories from the Arkham House edition and adds 3 additional stories.
Contents (1998 edition):
- Introduction by Barbara Roden
- Why I Write Ghost Stories (essay) by H. Russell Wakefield
- Into Outer Darkness
- The Alley
- Jay Walkers
- Ingredient X
- I Recognised the Voice
- Farewell Performance
- Not Quite Cricket
- In Collaboration
- A Stitch in Time
- Lucky's Grove
- Red Feathers
- Happy Ending?
- The First Sheaf
- Masrur
- A Fishing Story
- Used Car
- Death of a Poacher
- Knock! Knock! Who's There?
- From the Vasty Deep
- Out of the Wrack I Rise
- A Black Solitude
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