The People in the Castle

Cover art “The Castle in the Air” by Joan Aikman, 1939. © Blue Lantern Studio/Corbis.

One day a few years from now you’ll be busy with something and these stories will come back to you.

Here is the whisper in the night, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won’t let you sleep, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you’d checked the lock on the door before it got really, really dark. Here are tales of suspense and the supernatural that will chill, amuse, and exhilarate.

Contents:

• Cold Flame
• The Dark Streets of Kimball’s Green
• Furry Night
• Hope
• Humblepuppy
• The Lame King
• The Last Specimen
• A Leg Full of Rubies
• Listening
• Lob’s Girl
• The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick
• The Mysterious Barricades
• Old Fillikin
• The People in the Castle
• A Portable Elephant
• A Room Full of Leaves
• She Was Afraid of Upstairs
• Some Music for the Wicked Countess
• Sonata for Harp and Bicycle
• Watkyn, Comma