Part of Series
Contents 7 • Introduction (The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) • (1967) • essay by Robert Aickman 13 • The Accident • (1936) • novelette by Ann Bridge 36 • Not on the Passenger-List • (1915) • short story by Barry Pain 48 • The Sphinx Without a Secret • (1887) • short story by Oscar Wilde 53 • When I Was Dead • (1896) • short story by Vincent O'Sullivan 57 • The Queen of Spades • (1927) • novelette by Александр Пушкин? *translation of Пиковая дама? (1834) [as by Alexander Pushkin] 83 • Pargiton and Harby • (1926) • short story by Desmond MacCarthy 98 • The Snow • (1929) • short story by Hugh Walpole 107 • Carlton's Father • (1936) • short story by Eric Ambrose 119 • A School Story • (1911) • short story by M.R. James 126 • The Wolves of Cernogratz • (1913) • short story by Saki 131 • Mad Monkton • (1931) • novella by Wilkie Collins [as by William Wilkie Collins]
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.
