The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
Contents
Introduction essay by Robert Aickman
1. Negotium Perambulans (1922) short story by E. F. Benson
2. The End of the Flight (1926) short story by W. Somerset Maugham
3. The Beckoning Fair One (1911) novella by Oliver Onions
4. The Dream (1927) short story by A. J. Alan
5. The Stranger (1934) short story by Hugh MacDiarmid
6. The Case of Mr. Lucraft (1876) novella by Walter Besant and James Rice
7. The Seventh Man (1928) short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch
8. No Ships Pass (1932) novelette by Lady Eleanor Smith
9. The Man Who Came Back (1931) short story by William Gerhardi
10. The Visiting Star (1952) novelette by Robert Aickman
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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 and considered as a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
