The Ghost Story Society is a not-for-profit literary society whose members share an interest in supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction is a literary genre exploiting or requiring as plot devices or themes some contradictions of the commonplace natural world and materialist assumptions about it....

. Founded in Britain in 1988, it currently has an international membership and is administered by joint organizers Christopher Roden and Barbara Roden, owners of Ash-Tree Press, with the assistance of David G. Rowlands, Richard Dalby

Richard Dalby

Richard Dalby is an editor and literary researcher. His anthologies in the 1980s and 1990s unearthed rare supernatural tales, many of whose authors' original collections of stories have been reprinted in the last decade. He has edited over 50 anthologies and collections of ghost stories...

, Jan Arter, and Roger Dobson.

The society produces the journal All Hallows, which features new ghostly fiction, along with studies of the works and lives of such authors of classic ghost stories

Ghost story

A ghost story may be any piece of fiction, or drama, or an account of an experience, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. Colloquially, the term can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has...

 as M. R. James

M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...

, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T...

, H. Russell Wakefield

H. Russell Wakefield

Herbert Russell Wakefield was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories.-Life:...

, E. F. Benson, A. N. L. Munby, and R. R. Ryan

R. R. Ryan

R R. Ryan, a pseudonym of Evelyn Bradley , was the author of twelve published horror/thriller novels.-Identity:There can be few authors in the horror–thriller genre as elusive as R. R. Ryan. Until recently no biographical details about this author were known. Interest in the work of R. R...

, as well as more recent authors such as Robert Aickman

Robert Aickman

Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English conservationist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".-Life:...

, Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE is an English novelist. She was previously an actress and a model.In 1951 she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit...

, Terry Lamsley, and Jonathan Aycliffe. It also includes detailed reviews and notices of recent ghostly publications and films, letters from members, and a column by Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell

John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...

. All Hallows received the 2003 International Horror Guild Award

International Horror Guild Award

The International Horror Guild Award is a recognition presented by the International Horror Guild to recognize the achievements of those who create in the field of horror and dark fantasy. Nancy A. Collins, the founder of the award, felt there was a need for an award granted by a large,...

for best periodical.