The Literary ghost : great contemporary ghost stories

Dark, Larry. (Added Author).

Summary: A collection of non-traditional ghost stories, mostly from the past decade, by such authors as Fay Weldon, Nadine Gordimer, and Paul Bowles.

Item details

ISBN: 0871134748 :
ISBN: 9780871134745
Physical Description: print
x, 369 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1991.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Larry Dark -- Lost, strayed, stolen / M. F. K. Fisher -- Portobello road / Muriel Spark -- Ghost who vanished by Degri / Robertson Davies -- Others / Joyce Carol Oates -- Story of Don Juan / V.S. Pritchett -- Up north / Mavis Gallant -- Warden / John Gardner -- Death of Edward Lear / Donald Barthelme -- Circular valley / Paul Bowles -- Third voice / William Ferguson -- Marmilion / Patrick McGrath -- Spirit seizures / Melissa Pritchard -- Revenant as typewriter / Penelope Lively -- Ghostly Populations / Jack Matthews -- Ghost soldiers / Tim O'Brien -- Family / Lance Olsen -- Letter from a dogfighter's aunt, deceased / Padgett Powell -- Ghost / Anne Sexton -- Angel, all innocence / Fay Weldon -- Jack's girl / Cynthia Kadohata -- Next room / A.S. Byatt -- Grass / Barry Yourgrau -- Eisenheim the illusionist / Steven Millhauser -- Ghost and flesh, water and dirt / William Goyen -- Letter from his father / Nadine Gordimer -- Old man of the temple / R.K. Narayan -- Little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene -- Crown of feathers / Isaac Bashevis Singer.