The Eleventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
Contents
Introduction by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
1. Justice (1947) short story by The Gibsons
2. Aunt Cassie (1941) short story by Virginia Swain
3. The Woman's Ghost Story (1907) short story by Algernon Blackwood
4. The Ghost of U65 (1962) short story by G. A. Minto
5. Footsteps Invisible (1940) short story by Robert Arthur
6. Night Doings at Deadman's short story by Ambrose Bierce
7. The Earlier Service (1935) short story by Margaret Irwin
8. Scots Wha Ha'e short story by Dorothy K. Haynes
9. The Whittaker's Ghost (1879) short story by George Bernard Shaw
10. Lady Celia's Mirror short story by Catherine Gleason and Rita Morris
11. The Lonely Inn (1935) short story by Thomas Burke
12. The Green Scarf (1926) short story by A. M. Burrage
13. The House of Desolation (1934) short story by Donald Suddaby
14. The Man In the Mirror short story by Sydney J. Bounds
15. The Attic short story by Pamela Vincent
16. The Woman in Black short story by Peter Hackett
17. Haunted Ground (1930) short story by Oliver La Farge
18. The Man Who Sold Ghosts short story by Roger F. Dunkley
19. Matthew and Luke short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
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R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (a.k.a. Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes or R. Chetwynd-Hayes, 1919–2001) was an author, best known for his ghost stories. His first published work was the science fiction novel The Man From The Bomb in 1959. He went on to publish many collections and ten other novels including The Grange, The Haunted Grange, And Love Survived and The Curse of the Snake God. He also edited over 20 anthologies. Several of his short works were adapted into anthology style movies in the United Kingdom, including The Monster Club and From Beyond the Grave. Chetwynd-Hayes' book The Monster Club contains references to a film-maker called Vinke Rocnnor, an anagram of Kevin Connor, the director of From Beyond the Grave.
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.
