Part of Series
Contents: 7 • Introduction (The Tenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) • essay by R. Chetwynd-Hayes 11 • The House in the Wood • (1937) • short story by John Hastings Turner 21 • Fear • (1944) • short story by P. C. Wren 44 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry 50 • To Keep Him Company • short story by Rosemary Timperley 61 • In the Mist • (1971) • short story by Elizabeth Walter 78 • On the Brighton Road • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton 82 • Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X] 94 • Master Ghost and I • (1973) • short story by Barbara Softly 112 • The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce 121 • Two Trifles • (1934) • short story by Oliver Onions 132 • Wicked Captain Walshawe • (1937) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu *variant of Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling (1864) [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu] 143 • Monkshood Manor • (1954) • short story by L.P. Hartley 156 • The Chapel Men • short story by A.E. Ellis 165 • The Birthright • (1931) • short story by Hilda Hughes 173 • Non-Paying Passengers • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Author
Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes aka Angus Campbell. Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 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. He won the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement for 1988, and the British Fantasy Society Special Award in 1989.
