The Sixteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

Each series featured a mixture of reprint and original work. For several years, Chetwynd-Hayes was also active as an editor, producing several volumes in three Anthology series, the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories sequence the Tales of Terror sequence, which includes one Scots-flavoured volume edited as by Angus Campbell, Tales of Terror from Outer Space (anth 1975) and the Armada Monster Book. The Dracula sequence, comprising Dracula's Children (coll of linked stories 1987) and The House of Dracula (coll of linked stories 1987), deals with several generations of a Vampire family as extrapolated from hints in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897).Ĭhetwynd-Hayes published two novels of sf interest: The Man from the Bomb ( 1959), a Satire of Cold War Paranoia set in Near Future Britain and The Brats: A Novel of the Future ( 1979), set a generation after World War Three has rendered Homo sapiens infertile, except for the breeding of subhuman 'brats' (see Devolution), who in turn give birth to worm-like creatures (see Horror in SF) which, forming into a Telepathic gestalt, prepare to take over the world. The Clavering Grange tales, a series which includes two novels and variously released shorter works, are set in a twelfth-century mansion in Kent, where hauntings are numerous some of the tales are set in the Near Future and beyond. 9 The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1973) 10 The Tenth Fontana. He died in 2001.(1919-2001) Working name of UK author and anthologist Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes, who also published stories as by Angus Campbell and Henry Glynn though he wrote some sf, most of his more than 200 tales, beginning with 'The Orator' for The Lady in 1953, are fantasy or horror. Chetwynd-Hayes Author Record 1694 Legal Name: Chetwynd-Hayes. In 1989, he received the Horror Writers of America’s lifetime achievement award and also won an award from the British Fantasy Society for contributions to the genre. Though Chetwynd-Hayes’s works were not always huge sellers, his books were always in high demand with library patrons, and he was consistently among Britain’s top earners of public lending rights. Known as ‘Britain’s Prince of Chill’, Chetwynd-Hayes developed a reputation and a large fan base for his old-fashioned ghost stories and his tongue-in-cheek monster tales. He went on to write some 200 short stories and a dozen novels and also edited anthologies, including twelve volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. He sold his first short story in 1953 and his first novel, a science fiction tale, The Man from the Bomb, was published in 1959. He served during the Second World War, and after demobilization returned to London and worked in furniture sales.

He grew up a film fan, and in between working odd jobs appeared as an extra in several pictures, including A Yank at Oxford (1938), which starred Lionel Barrymore, Vivien Leigh, and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Goodbye, Mr.

Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes was born in Isleworth, west London, in 1919.

The Sixteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes