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The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

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Contents

Introduction essay by Robert Aickman
1. Playing with Fire (1900) short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Man-Size in Marble (1887) short story by E. Nesbit
3. How Love Came to Professor Guildea (1897) novella by Robert Hichens
4. The Demon Lover (1941) short story by Elizabeth Bowen
5. A. V. Laider (1916) short story by Max Beerbohm
6. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) short story by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Our Distant Cousins (1929) novelette by Lord Dunsany
8. The Inner Room novelette by Robert Aickman
9. Thurnley Abbey (1907) short story by Perceval Landon
10. Nightmare Jack (1925) short story by John Metcalfe
11. The Damned Thing (1893) short story by Ambrose Bierce
12. Afterward (1910) novelette by Edith Wharton

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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".

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