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