Part of Series
Contents: 7 • Introduction (The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) • essay by Robert Aickman 13 • Negotium Perambulans • (1922) • short story by E.F. Benson 29 • The End of the Flight • (1926) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham 35 • The Beckoning Fair One • (1911) • novella by Oliver Onions 107 • The Dream • (1927) • short story by A.J. Alan 116 • The Stranger • (1934) • short story by Hugh MacDiarmid 120 • The Case of Mr. Lucraft • (1876) • novella by Walter Besant and James Rice [as by Sir Walter Besant and James Rice] 154 • The Seventh Man • (1928) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch] 168 • No Ships Pass • (1932) • novelette by Lady Eleanor Smith 194 • The Man Who Came Back • (1931) • short story by William Gerhardi 198 • The Visiting Star • novelette by Robert Aickman
Author
Author of: close to 50 "strange stories" in the weird-tale and ghost-story traditions, two novels (The Late Breakfasters and The Model), two volumes of memoir (The Attempted Rescue and The River Runs Uphill), and two books on the canals of England (Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways). Co-founder and longtime president of the Inland Waterways Association, an organization that in the middle of the 20th century restored a great part of England's deteriorating system of canals, now a major draw for recreation nationally and for tourism internationally. Grandson of author Richard Marsh.
