Contents

Introduction by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
1. The Last Victim by Catherine Gleason and Rita Morris
2. A Tale of a Gas-Light Ghost (1866) by uncredited
3. The Paupers' Feast by Sydney J. Bounds
4. Number 13 (1904) by M. R. James
5. Up, Like a Good Girl! by Dorothy K. Haynes
6. An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
7. The Glass Staircase (1956) by R. Thurston Hopkins
8. The Maid, the Madman and the Knife by Rosemary Timperley
9. What Was It? (1859) by Fitz-James O'Brien
10. The Veritable Verasco by James Jauncey
11. The Silver Highway (1946) by Harold Lawlor
12. Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork (1931) by Lady Eleanor Smith
13. The Phantom of the Lake (1886) by Edmund Mitchell
14. Keep the Gaslight Burning by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

Published
October 20, 1976 (Fontana)
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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…

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