![]() Wakefield, "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin, "Thurnley Abbey" by Perceval Landon, "Afterward" by Edith Wharton, and "The Wendigo" by Algernonīlackwood. Aickman, acknowledged as the master of the "inconclusive" ghost story, edited this annual anthology for its first eight volumes, using for the most part works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period generally known as the Golden Age of the ghost story.Īickman's selections included classics such as "The Haunted and the Haunters" by Lord Bulwer-Lytton, "A School Story" by M.R. So wrote Robert Aickman in the Introduction to the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories in 1964. ![]() "There are only about thirty or forty first-class ghost stories in the whole of western literature." See also Rick's Bibliography of the Ghost Book Series.This article previously appeared in Sirius #2, 1993, and All Hallows #12, June 1996. ![]() ![]() Fontana's "Great Ghost Stories" Series A Bibliography by Rick Kennett ![]()
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