The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
Contents
Introduction by Robert Aickman
1. The Haunted Haven (1972) short story by A. E. Ellis
2. The Red Lodge (1928) short story by H. Russell Wakefield
3. Midnight Express (1935) short story by Alfred Noyes
4. Meeting Mr. Millar (1972) novelette by Robert Aickman
5. The Gorgon's Head (1899) short story by Gertrude Bacon
6. The Tree (1972) short story by Joyce Marsh
7. The Haunted and the Haunters (1882) novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
8. 151 Bezhin Lea (1852) short story by Ivan Turgenev
9. 176 The Last Séance (1926) short story by Agatha Christie
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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.
