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