Part of Series
7 • Introduction (The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) • (1969) • essay by Robert Aickman 11 • The Firmin Child • (1965) • shortstory by Richard H. Blum 33 • Lord Mount Prospect • (1965) • shortstory by John Betjeman 45 • The Library Window • (1881) • shortstory by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant ] 87 • The Dancing Partner • (1893) • shortstory by Jerome K. Jerome 94 • The Swords • (1969) • novelette by Robert Aickman 122 • The Mysterious Stranger • (1823) • novelette by Anonymous 161 • A Question Of Time • (1969) • shortstory by Elizabeth Walter 172 • Venus • (1909) • shortstory by Maurice Baring 182 • Jerry Bundler • (1897) • shortstory by W. W. Jacobs 190 • The Great Return • (1915) • novelette by Arthur Machen
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.
