num_pages: 323
description: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Summons to Memphis, here is a haunting collection of fiction--including a novella, ten stories, and three one-act plays--that examines lost love, retribution, second chances, human perversity, and ghosts.The oracle at Stoneleigh Court --Demons --The witch of Owl Mountain Springs: an account of her remarkable powers --At the art theater --Cousin Aubrey --The real ghost --In the waiting room --Nerves --The decline and fall of the Episcopal Church (in the year of Our Lord 1952) --The end of play --An overwhelming question --Familiar haunts --A redheaded man --Missing person
language: English
title: The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: Stories
titlecomplete: The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: Stories
genres: American, Short Stories
ratings_count: 38
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Knopf