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The Fith Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

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Contents

Introduction essay by Robert Aickman
1. The Firmin Child (1965) short story by Richard H. Blum
2. Lord Mount Prospect (1929) short story by John Betjeman
3. The Library Window (1881) novelette by Margaret Oliphant
4. The Dancing Partner (1928) short story by Jerome K. Jerome
5. The Swords (1969) novelette by Robert Aickman
6. The Mysterious Stranger (1854) novelette by Karl von Wachsmann
7. A Question of Time (1967) short story by Elizabeth Walter
8. Venus (1909) short story by Maurice Baring
9. Jerry Bundler (1897) short story by W. W. Jacobs
10. The Great Return (1915) novelette by Arthur Machen

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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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