The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
Contents
Introduction essay by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
1. The Case of the Long-Dead Lord short story by Dennis Wheatley
2. The Lonely Apparition short story by Charles Thornton
3. The Dead Smile (1899) novelette by F. Marion Crawford
4. Crimson Lake short story by Daphne Froome
5. Old Shadows short story by Ken Alden
6. The Man with the Flute short story by Rosemary Timperley
7. The Taipan (1922) short story by W. Somerset Maugham
8. Not Yet Solved (1886) short story by Anonymous
9. Into the Mad, Mad World short story by Terry Tapp
10. The Hostelry (1923) short story by Guy de Maupassant
11. Disappearance short story by Catherine Gleason and Rita Morris
12. The Ghost Machine short story by Roger F. Dunkley
13. The Rocker (1911) short story by Oliver Onions
14. The Cape Cod Poltergeist short story by Margaret Chilvers Cooper
15. 28 Tower Street short story by Duncan Forbes
16. The Grey Cottage (1886) short story by Mrs. Claxton
17. Mother Love short story by Pamela Cleaver
18. My Dear Wife short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
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 Vinke Rocnnor, an anagram of Kevin Connor, the director of From Beyond the Grave.
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.
