1 NOVEMBER 1957, Page 25

Upon the Midnight. Edited by R. C. Bull. (Macdonald, 15s.)

Haunting is not, so far as one knows, a crime, and so it may be that ghost stories have no place here, but room must be found to commend this anthology of the grue- some and the macabre—sixteen tales whose authors range from Mrs. Gaskell to Mr. Greene (a remarkable seedy little thriller, set in the Edg- ware Road), and among them two quite funny little frolics from Mr. Priestley and the late Mr. Bennett. But there is an agreeably old-fashioned clank of chains and rattle of bones about some of the rest.