The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
Contents
Introduction essay by Robert Aickman
1. The Travelling Grave (1929) novelette by L. P. Hartley
2. The Ghost Ship (1912) short story by Richard Middleton
3. Squire Toby's Will (1868) novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
4. The Voice in the Night (1907) short story by William Hope Hodgson
5. Three Miles Up (1951) short story by Elizabeth Jane Howard
6. The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926) short story by D. H. Lawrence
7. The Wendigo (1910) novella by Algernon Blackwood
8. The Crown Derby Plate (1933) short story by Marjorie Bowen
9. The Trains (1951) novelette by Robert Aickman
10. The Old Nurse's Story (1852) novelette by Mrs. Gaskell
11. Seaton's Aunt (1922) novelette by Walter de la Mare
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Robert Aickman
Robert Fordyce Aickman (1914–1981) was an English conservationist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. As a writer, he is best known for his short supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
A series of twenty anthologies of ghost stories published from 1964 to 1984, the first eight edited by Robert Aickman and the remainder by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories consists of twenty books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
