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Selected by R. Chetwynd-Hayes and Stephen Jones
(a) Carroll & Graf, USA • tp • $13.00
ISBN-10: 0-78671-363-1
(2nd printing, 2004 • $14.00)
ISBN-13: 978-0-78671-363-9
(3rd printing, 2007 • $14.95)
Cover by Michael Gesinger/Photonika
(b) as GREAT GHOST STORIES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND MADNESS
Cemetery Dance Books, USA trade • hc • $40.00
ISBN: 1-58767-103-4
(c) as GREAT GHOST STORIES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND MADNESS
Cemetery Dance Books, USA • hc (52-copy signed, lettered and traycased) • $500.00 • (2005-06)
ISBN: 1-58767-103-4
[Note: Sold out before publication.]
Cover by Les Edwards
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Spirits of Darkness . . . Spectres of Doom . . . Malice that endures beyond the grave . . . in stories
like 'The Dead Smile': "Sir Gabriel opened the winding-sheet where the hands were, and the blackened, withered
fingers were closed upon something stained and mottled. Shivering from head to foot, but fighting like a
man in agony for his life, he tried to take the package from the dead man's hold. But as he pulled at
it the claw-like fingers seemed to close more tightly, and when he pulled harder the shrunken hands and
arms rose from the corpse with a horrible look of life . . ." From R. Chetwynd-Hayes and
Stephen Jones, editors of the famed Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories and the award-winning
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series, respectively, comes a superlative selection of
twenty-five classic stories of the supernatural by such renowned authors as E. Nesbit, F. Marion
Crawford, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, S. Baring-Gould, Sir Walter Scott,
Daniel Defoe, Jerome K. Jerome and J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Also featuring modern tales of unease by
such contemporary authors as Stephen King, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Steve Rasnic Tem,
Garry Kilworth, Tony Richards, Sydney J. Bounds, Tina Rath and R. Chetwynd-Hayes himself, this
volume is guaranteed to raise a shiver of dread along the spine of any reader on a cold, wintry
night . . . May you never hear invisible footsteps following you down the stairs. Happy shuddering!
| FOREWORD |
Stephen Jones |
| INTRODUCTION |
R. Chetwynd-Hayes |
| THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS |
Amelia B. Edwards |
| ON THE BRIGHTON ROAD |
Richard Middleton |
| THE MOONLIT ROAD |
Ambrose Bierce |
| THE WHITTAKERS GHOST |
G.B.S. |
| THE LEADEN RING |
S. Baring-Gould |
| THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER |
Sir Walter Scott |
| GHOST STORIES OF THE TILED HOUSE |
J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| THE DEAD SMILE |
F. Marion Crawford |
| THE GHOST OF DOROTHY DINGLEY |
Daniel Defoe |
| THE DEAD MAN OF VARLEY GRANGE |
Anonymous |
| JOHN CHARRINGTON'S WEDDING |
E. Nesbit |
| THE NIGHT WALKERS |
Sydney J. Bounds |
| BRICKETT BOTTOM |
Amyas Northcote |
| THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL |
John Kendrick Bangs |
| THE REAPER'S IMAGE |
Stephen King |
| CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE BLUE CHAMBER |
Jerome K. Jerome |
| HOUSEWARMING |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
| THE FERRIES |
Ramsey Campbell |
| THE FETCH |
Tina Rath |
| GUESTS FROM GIBBET ISLAND |
Washington Irving |
| THE TRYST |
Garry Kilworth |
| AN APPARITION |
Guy de Maupassant |
| AUNT HESTER |
Brian Lumley |
| OUR LADY OF THE SHADOWS |
Tony Richards |
| SHE WALKS ON DRY LAND |
R. Chetwynd-Hayes |
Reviews
"With such a fine pair of editors you're right to assume that this will be a first-rate compendium of things that go bump-in-the-night . . . Another quality anthology."
—James Whittington
THE DARK SIDE #114, April-May, 2005
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