The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
Robert Aickman

Alive or dead, Elinor had to protect Herbert, had to protect him from greed and malice - above all from love...

Two men walk alone in the moonlight - with three shadows...

They wouldn't listen. He screamed, he shouted, he struck them - but they just went on laying him out for his own funeral...

The footprints in the snow led to death. The children knew it. The doctor knew it. Yet they seemed irresistible. And then the postcards started to arrive...

Contents
7 Introduction (The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) (1967) essay by Robert Aickman
13 The Accident (1936) novelette by Ann Bridge
36 Not on the Passenger-List (1915) short story by Barry Pain
48 The Sphinx Without a Secret (1887) short story by Oscar Wilde
53 When I Was Dead (1896) short story by Vincent O'Sullivan
57 The Queen of Spades (1927) novelette by ????????? ??????? *translation of ??????? ????? (1834) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
83 Pargiton and Harby (1926) short story by Desmond MacCarthy
98 The Snow (1929) short story by Hugh Walpole
107 Carlton's Father (1936) short story by Eric Ambrose
119 A School Story (1911) short story by M.R. James
126 The Wolves of Cernogratz (1913) short story by Saki
131 Mad Monkton (1931) novella by Wilkie Collins [as by William Wilkie Collins]

Titre original : The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories