Format:
Book
Author(s):
Dark, Larry
Keyword(s):
Ghost stories, English.
Ghost stories, American.
Anthologie.
Gespenstergeschichte.
Englisch.
USA.
Year:
1991
Pages:
x, 369 p.
Publisher:
Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher location:
New York
Accession number:
23462786
Label:
Box 22
Notes:
25 cm.
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.
edited and with an introduction by Larry Dark.
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: PR1309.G5; Dewey: 823/.0873308
ISBN:
ISBN: 0871134748; 9780871134745 LCCN: 91-15052
Work type:
Fiction (fic)
Edition:
1st
Abstract:
A collection of non-traditional ghost stories, mostly from the past decade, by such authors as Fay Weldon, Nadine Gordimer, and Paul Bowles.