GHOSTLY GENTLEWOMEN

Have you ever noticed,"" query the editors in an introduction, ""how many of the really superb, lasting ghost stories are written by women?"" With Manley and Lewis around it's hard not to notice, but for those who like to be reminded, here are twelve more genteel shivers by such diverse mistresses of the haunt as Norah Lofts and Sarah Orne Jewett, Mrs. Molesworth and Virginia Woolf.