num_pages: 466
description: A riveting collection of spectral chills and ghostly tales by twenty-seven masters of twentieth-century literature. The phantasms, shades, and specters in this volume of ghost stories by contemporary writers like Alison Lurie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joyce Carol Oates, and William Trevor as well as such modern literary giants as Henry James, Isak Dinesen, Franz Kafka, and Rudyard Kipling write letters, carry lanterns, ride bicycles, patrol halls, run motorboats, rake leaves, and deliver mail. They also inhabit dolls and sticks of furniture. Some of them merely haunt houses, while others invade the darkest corners of the soul. Throughout this expertly edited collection, a companion to Robert Phillips's equally successful anthology, the very popular Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories, writers as distinctive of their decade as Edith Wharton and Muriel Spark or the incomparable Max Beerbohm and the up-and-coming Max Eberts explore the literary possibilities of the classic ghost story to deliver taut suspense, psychological terror, and eerie mystery. The irresistible mix of chills and artistry, of terror and genius, make every tale in this volume worth the visit.CONTENTSGhosts On The Lake by Ilse AichingerSonata For Harp And Bicycle by Joan AikenEnoch Soames by Max BeerbohmThe Happy Autumn Fields by Elizabeth BowenOh Father, Father, Why Have You Come Back? by John CheeverDead Women's Things by Kathy ChwedykThe Upper Berth by F. Marion CrawfordThe Supper At Elsinore by Isak DinesenLost Lives by Max EbertsThe Shadowy Third by Ellen GlasgowA Shape Of Light by William GoyenW.S. by L.P. HartleyThe Astral Body of a U.S. Mail Truck by James Leo HerlihyThe Bus by Shirley JacksonThe Friends Of The Friends by Henry JamesBlumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor by Franz Kafka"They" by Rudyard KiplingThe Highboy by Alison LurieThe Ghosts Of August by Gabriel García MárquezThe Doll by Joyce Carol OatesWolfie by Robert PhillipsA Spiritualist by Jean RhysOwl by Elizabeth SpencerA Gracious Rain by Christopher TilghmanMr. Acland's Ghost by William TrevorThe Leaf-Sweeper by Muriel SparkPomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton
language: English
title: Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories
titlecomplete: Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Horror, Ghosts, Fantasy, Supernatural
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Carroll &amp; Graf