Contents:7 Introduction (The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) (1971) essay by Robert Aickman11 Levitation (1958) short story by Joseph Payne Brennan16 Dearth's Farm (1923) short story by Gerald Bullett29 Esmeralda (1944) novelette by John Keir Cross50 The Dead Valley (1895) short story by Ralph Adams Cram61 The Visit to the Museum (1958) short story by Vladimir Nabokov *translation of Посещение музея? (1939)73 Gone Away (1935) short story by A.E. Coppard85 Governor Manco and the Soldier (1832) short story by Washington Irving103 The Cicerones (1967) short story by Robert Aickman116 Old Mrs. Jones (1882) novella by Mrs. J.H. Riddell [as by Mrs. Riddell]169 Over an Absinthe Bottle (1893) short story by W.C. Morrow181 Where the Woodbine Twineth (1964) short story by Davis Grubb (variant of You Never Believe Me)