Part of Series
Contents: 7 • Introduction (The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) • (1971) • essay by Robert Aickman 11 • Levitation • (1958) • short story by Joseph Payne Brennan 16 • Dearth's Farm • (1923) • short story by Gerald Bullett 29 • Esmeralda • (1944) • novelette by John Keir Cross 50 • The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram 61 • The Visit to the Museum • (1958) • short story by Vladimir Nabokov *translation of Посещение музея? (1939) 73 • Gone Away • (1935) • short story by A.E. Coppard 85 • Governor Manco and the Soldier • (1832) • short story by Washington Irving 103 • The Cicerones • (1967) • short story by Robert Aickman 116 • Old Mrs. Jones • (1882) • novella by Mrs. J.H. Riddell [as by Mrs. Riddell] 169 • Over an Absinthe Bottle • (1893) • short story by W.C. Morrow 181 • Where the Woodbine Twineth • (1964) • short story by Davis Grubb (variant of You Never Believe Me)
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.
