The Fontana Book of
Great Ghost Stories
~  2 & 3 ~
Editor:
Robert Aickman

Published: 1973 / 1980, reprints

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#2 Contents
    11 • Playing with Fire • (1900) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
    25 • Man-Size in Marble • (1966) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
    37 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
    83 • The Demon Lover • (1941) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
    90 • A. V. Laider • (1916) • short story by Max Beerbohm
    111 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
    121 • Our Distant Cousins • [Jorkens] • (1929) • novelette by Lord Dunsany
    146 • The Inner Room • (1966) • novelette by Robert Aickman
    178 • Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
    194 • Nightmare Jack • (1925) • short story by John Metcalfe
    213 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
    222 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton

#3 Contents
    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 • (1952) • novelette by Robert Aickman

Condition of books (good)

Exterior: minor shelf wear, marks & creases
Interior: tanned; light marks/spotting; a few page corners torn off (margin only); #2 has some writing in margins in faint pencil
Binding: strong

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