Gaslight, Ghosts & Ghouls
A Centenary Celebration . . . Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes was born 100 years ago. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, his long-time friend and colleague, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones, has compiled Gaslight, Ghosts, & Ghouls, a stunning volume of stories and non-fiction that truly does justice to the enduring legacy of R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
This massive volume contains sixteen of the author’s highly original stories of horror and humour, including a rare reprint of one of his tales featuring “the world’s only practising psychic detective” Francis St. Clare and his vivacious assistant Frederica (“Fred”) Masters, two stories that have never been reprinted since their original publication, plus a vampire novella that appears here for the very first time! There is also the longest interview with the author ever published, plus the most complete and detailed Working Bibliography of his publications yet assembled.
As R. Chetwynd-Hayes himself would have said: May you never hear invisible footsteps following you down the stairs...
CONTENTS:
Introduction by Stephen Jones
A Writer in the Dark Lands: An Interview with R. Chetwynd-Hayes by Stephen Jones and Jo Fletcher
Housebound
The Gatecrasher
The Day That Father Brought Something Home
The Door
The Elemental
The Jumpity-Jim
The Coloured Transmission
R. Chetwynd-Hayes Photo Gallery
Bits and Pieces
Something Comes in from the Garden
The Humgoo
The Cradle Demon
The Gibbering Ghoul of Gomershal
Doppelgänger
Les Edwards: A Portfolio
Acquiring a Family
A Walk on the Dark Side
Day School
R. Chetwynd-Hayes: A Working Bibliography by Stephen Jones and Marc Damian Lawler Obituary
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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.
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