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Guide to the Fontana Ghost, Horror & Tales of Terror series’.

Fontana Ghost & Horror Booklist

This is doubtless far from complete, but if anybody can help out I’d be grateful. Other than the later volumes in the Horror and Ghost series’, I’m not looking at anything post 1979.

Anthologies

Robert Aickman

Robert Aickman (ed.) – The Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories 1-8 (1964 -1972)

1st Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
2nd Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
3rd Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
4th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
5th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
6th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
7th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
8th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories

R. Chetwynd-Hayes

R. Chetwynd-Hayes (ed.) – The Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories 9-20 (1973 – 1984)

9th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
10th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
11th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
12th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
13th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
14th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
15th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
16th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
17th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
18th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
19th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
20th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories

Cornish Tales of Terror
Gaslight Tales Of Terror
Tales of Terror from Outer Space
Welsh Tales of Terror

As ‘Angus Campbell’

Scottish Tales of Terror

Christine Barnard

Christine Barnard (ed.) -The Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories 1-4 (1966 – 1969)

Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
2nd Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
3rd Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
4th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories

Mary Danby

Mary Danby (ed.) -The Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories 5-17 (1970 – 1984)

5th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
6th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
7th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
8th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
9th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
10th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
11th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
12th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
13th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
14th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
15th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
16th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
17th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories

Frighteners

Frighteners 2

Bryan Douglas – Great Stories of Mystery and Imagination (1966)
Robert Muller – Supernatural (1977)

John Hadfield – A Chamber Of Horrors (1967)

J. J. Strating (ed.) – European Tales of Terror (1968)

J. J. Strating (ed.) – Oriental Tales of Terror (1971)

Jim McGarry (ed.) – Irish Tales of Terror (1971)

Jacquelyn Visick (ed.) – London Tales of Terror (1972)

J. J. Strating (ed.) – Sea Tales of Terror (1974)

Single Author

Robert Aickman – Dark Entries (1964)

Robert Aickman – Powers of Darkness (1968)

R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Elemental (1974)

R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Night Ghouls (1976)

R. Chetwynd-Hayes – Tales Of Fear & Fantasy (1977)

Brian Clemens – Thriller (1974, 1975)

Brian Clemens – More Stories From Thriller (1975)

Elizabeth Walter – Snowfall (1968)

J. S. Le Fanu – The Vampire Lovers (1970)

H. G. Wells – The Valley Of The Spiders (1964, 1978)

William Drummond – Night Must Fall (1964)

H. G. Wells – The Cone (1965)

Novels

H. G. Wells – The Invisible Man (1960, 1966)

Hugh Enfield – Kronos (1972)

Bernard Taylor – The Godsend (1977)

Bernard Taylor – Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1978)

Fritz Leiber – Our Lady Of Darkness (1978)

Anne Rivers Siddons – The House Next Door (1979)

Ghost & Horror Non-Fiction

Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book (1961, 1968, 1973)
Denis Bardens – Ghosts & Hauntings (1973)
Denis Bardens – Mysterious Worlds (1972)
Tom Cullen – The Life And Crimes Of Jack The Ripper
Andrew Green – Our Haunted Kingdom (1974)
Joan Forman – Haunted East Anglia (1976, 1977)

Thanks to Rog of A Haunted Dolls House for his suggestions.

8 Responses to “Fontana Ghost & Horror Booklist”

  1. albie said

    I have a copy of Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book

    Would you like me to scan it?

  2. albie said

  3. demonik said

    Thanks, albie! Good to hear from you again. You know we’ve switched forum’s now, don’t you? You’re more than welcome at the new Vault:

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  4. Scary said

    Cool. I love the covers

  5. Hettie said

    Hello,

    please can you tell me where I can buy the books from the series Fontana ghost stories? I am still looking for all the numbers from 10-20.
    Thanks,
    Hettie.

    • Ben said

      Hello Hettie,

      Maybe you’ve found the Fontana books you were after (as it’s a year ago) but if not ebay and Amazon have plenty of them, very often you can get them for as cheap as 1p on there. Hope this helps.

      Best wishes,

      Ben

  6. Robert Mammone said

    I bought a horror collection in sometime between 1981 and 1984. I can’t remember if it was part of a series of anthologies or a one off. I can’t really remember any of the stories. I would imagine it was a UK publication that made its way down to Australia. I do remember the cover however, which featured the figure of a man/plant hybrid (green and brown), with wide, staring eyes. He/it was reaching ‘out’ of the cover towards the reader.

    Not much to go on but any help appreciated as it is bugging the hell out of me! I usually keep all my books (even that far back!) but this one seems to have gone astray.

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