The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
Contents
Introduction by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
1. The Reaper's Image (1969) short story by Stephen King
2. Help the Railway Mission short story by Dorothy K. Haynes
3. The Cupboard (1922) short story by Jeffery Farnol
4. The Shot-Tower Ghost (1949) short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
5. After Dark short story by Tony Richards
6. Dead Man's Barn short story by A. E. Ellis
7. The Passing of Edward (1912) short story by Richard Middleton
8. The Last Innings short story by Daphne Froome
9. Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber (1891) short story by Jerome K. Jerome
10. Catherine's Angel short story by Heather Vineham
11. The Lamp (1933) short story by Agatha Christie
12. Welcombe Manor short story by Catherine Gleason and Rita Morris
13. The Bed short story by Terry Tapp
14. An Unsolved Mystery (1886) essay by E. Owens Blackburne
15. Which One? novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
16. The Horrors of Sleep (1846) poem by Emily Brontë
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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.
