The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
Contents
Introduction essay by Robert Aickman
1. Levitation (1958) short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
2. Dearth's Farm (1923) short story by Gerald Bullett
3. Esmeralda (1944) novelette by John Keir Cross
4. The Dead Valley (1895) short story by Ralph Adams Cram
5. The Visit to the Museum (1963) short story by Vladimir Nabokov
6. Gone Away (1935) short story by A. E. Coppard
7. Governor Manco and the Soldier (1832) short story by Washington Irving
8. The Cicerones (1967) short story by Robert Aickman
9. Old Mrs. Jones (1882) novella by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
10. Over an Absinthe Bottle (1893) short story by W. C. Morrow
11. Where the Woodbine Twineth (1964) short story by Davis Grubb
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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.
