Ghostly Companions

Alcock's fans will be well-spooked by the strange events in this anthology of wonderfully eerie stories. In ""The Whisperer,'' a small girl who has been dead for years haunts her older brother with continuous whispers of ``Let me in, please let me in,'' until an outsider shows the family what the restless spirit wants. A lad buys ``The Sea Bride,'' a ship's figurehead, only to find out that an angry groom wants her back. A wicked aunt finds herself kicked out of her own body by a devoted, gentle nursemaid who drowned in ``A Change of Aunts.'' And deceitful