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The fourth Fontana book of great ghost stories

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Contents

Introduction essay by Robert Aickman
1. The Accident (1936) novelette by Ann Bridge
2. Not on the Passenger-List (1915) short story by Barry Pain
3. The Sphinx Without a Secret (1887) short story by Oscar Wilde
4. When I Was Dead (1896) short story by Vincent O'Sullivan
5. The Queen of Spades (1927) novelette by Alexander Pushkin
6. Pargiton and Harby (1926) short story by Desmond MacCarthy
7. The Snow (1929) short story by Hugh Walpole
8. Carlton's Father (1936) short story by Eric Ambrose
9. A School Story (1911) short story by M. R. James
10. The Wolves of Cernogratz (1913) short story by Saki
11. Mad Monkton (1931) novella by Wilkie Collins

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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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