The Best Short Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes: Ghosts And Ghouls (1993)

Edited by Stephen Jones
The Best Short Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes: Ghosts And Ghouls
Cover by Edward Miller

In a writing career that lasted for more than forty years, Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes published more than 200 short stories and was Britain’s undisputed “Prince of Chill”. Now multiple award-winning editor Stephen Jones has compiled the first spine-chilling volume of The Best Short Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes—thirteen classic tales of terror that combine horror and humour in equal measure. In this volume you will encounter a 19th century serial killer who refuses to remain dead; an old door that opens into a spectral room from the past; a television set which receives transmissions from Hell; a village of flesh-eaters hidden down a country lane; a demonic baby, and a family of ghostly children. Additionally, “the world’s only practising psychic detective” Francis St. Clare and his assistant Frederica Masters investigate one of their most bizarre cases, ‘The Gibbering Ghoul of Gomershal’. These are just some of The Best Short Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes. Be afraid. Very afraid . . .

  • Edited by Stephen Jones and Peter Crowther (a) PS Publishing, UK • hc (Deluxe Edition) (b) PS Publishing, UK • hc (Trade Hardcover)
    The Best Short Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes: Ghosts And Ghouls (1993)
    Cover by Jon Arfstrom
INTRODUCTION: THE BEST OF R. CHETWYND-HAYES Stephen Jones
HOUSEBOUND  
THE GATECRASHER  
THE DAY THAT FATHER BROUGHT SOMETHING HOME  
THE DOOR  
THE ELEMENTAL  
THE JUMPITY-JIM  
THE COLOURED TRANSMISSION  
SOMETHING COMES IN FROM THE GARDEN  
THE HUMGOO  
THE CRADLE DEMON  
THE GIBBERING GHOUL OF GOMERSHAL  
DOPPELGÄNGER  
ACQUIRING A FAMILY