num_pages: 352
description: Fiction pales beside fact in this anthology of such phenomena as spectral visions, phantom footsteps, and astral projections related by the masters of the genre.Contents:• Introduction: Dancing With the Dark • (1997) • essay by Stephen Jones• My Feelings About Ghosts • (1997) • essay by Joan Aiken• Timeswitch • (1997) • essay by Sarah Ash• The Rustle in the Grass • (1997) • essay by Mike Ashley• Take Care of Grandma • (1997) • essay by Peter Atkins• Life After Death • (1985) • essay by Clive Barker• The Cartographer • (1997) • essay by Stephen Baxter• Not Quite So Pragmatic • (1985) • essay by Robert Bloch• The Nearest to a Ghost • (1997) • essay by Ramsey Campbell• Haitian Mystères • (1997) • essay by Hugh B. Cave• One-Way Trip • (1997) • essay by R. Chetwynd-Hayes• The Shock of the Macabre • (1946) • essay by A. E. Coppard• The Haunted Hotel • (1997) • essay by Basil Copper• Safe Arrival • (1997) • essay by Peter Crowther• A Gift of Eagles • (1997) • essay by Jack Dann• The House on Spadina • (1997) • essay by Charles de Lint• Sharing With Strangers • (1997) • essay by Terry Dowling• Hands on the Wheel •(1997) •by R.L. Fanthorpe (as by Lionel Fanthorpe)• The Old School Spirit • (1997) • essay by Esther M. Friesner• Twice Encountered • (1997) • essay by Gregory Frost• The Flints of Memory Lane • (1997) • short story by Neil Gaiman• In There • (1997) • essay by Stephen Gallagher• Haunted in the Head • (1997) • essay by Ray Garton• The House on the Brink • (1997) • essay by John Gordon• Riding the Nightwinds • (1997) • essay by Ed Gorman• ESP • (1974) • essay by Elizabeth Goudge• Death Is a Lady • (1997) • short fiction by Simon R. Green• The Smoke Ghost • (1997) • essay by Peter Haining• Never Say Die • (1997) • essay by Joe Haldeman• Not Very Psychic • (1992) • essay by James Herbert• Confessions of a Born-Again Heathen • (1997) • essay by Brian Hodge• To Pine With Fear and Sorrow • (1997) • essay by Nancy Holder• A Ghostly Cry • (1931) • essay by M.R. James• One Extra for Dinner • (1997) • essay by Peter James• A Face in the Crowd • (1997) • essay by Mike Jefferies• Raggedy Ann • (1997) • essay by Nancy Kilpatrick• Uncle Clayton • (1983) • essay by Stephen King• Go On, Open Your Eyes... • (1997) • essay by Hugh Lamb• Moving Houses • (1997) • essay by Terry Lamsley• Inspiration • (1997) • essay by John Landis• Norfolk Nightmare • (1997) • essay by Stephen Laws• Not Funny • (1997) • essay by Samantha Lee• The Gray Ghost • (1997) • essay by Barry B. Longyear• Witch House • (1965) • essay by H.P. Lovecraft• The Challenge • (1997) • essay by Brian Lumley• The World of the Senses • (1923) • essay by Arthur Machen• My Grandfather's House • (1997) • essay by Graham Masterton• More Than We Appear to Be • (1985) • essay by Richard Matheson• Visit to a Psychic Surgeon • (1994) • by Richard Christian Matheson• The Fall of the Wires • (1997) • essay by Paul J. McAuley• Unto the Third Generation • (1997) • essay by Anne McCaffrey• Talkin' Them Marble Orchard Blues • (1997) • by Thomas F. Monteleone• A Shadow of Tomorrow • (1997) • essay by Mark Morris• The House on Chadwell Drive • (1997) • essay by Yvonne Navarro• The Floating Table and the Jumping Violet • (1997) •by William F. Nolan• Mesmeric Revelation • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe• In the Clouds • (1996) • essay by Vincent Price• Clinic-Modern • (1997) • essay by Alan Rodgers• Magical Thinking • (1997) • essay by Nicholas Royle• De Cold, Cold Décolletage • (1997) • essay by Jay Russell• The Darkness Between the Frames • (1997) • essay by Adam Simon• The Mist People • (1997) • essay by Guy N. Smith• Mr. Cat • (1997) • essay by Michael Marshall Smith• In the Realm of the Spirits • (1997) • essay by S.P. Somtow• Chacun sa Goule • (1997) • essay by Brian Stableford• The Spirit of M. R. James • (1997) • essay by Laurence Staig• The Family Curse • (1997) • essay by Peter Tremayne• The Red Lodge • (1928) • by H. Russell Wakefield (as by H.R. Wakefield)• My Haunted Home • (1997) • essay by Lawrence Watt-Evans• The Ghost Hunters • (1997) • essay by Cherry Wilder• A Place Where a Head Would Rest • (1997) • essay by Chet Williamson• The Glowing Hand • (1997) • essay by F. Paul Wilson• Finding My Religion • (1997) • essay by Douglas E. Winter• Kid Sister • (1997) • essay by Gene Wolfe
language: English
title: Dancing with the Dark: True Encounters with the Paranormal by Masters of the Macabre
titlecomplete: Dancing with the Dark: True Encounters with the Paranormal by Masters of the Macabre
genres: Short Stories, Horror, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Paranormal
ratings_count: 65
publisher: Carroll & Graf