Ghostly
Subtitle: a collection of ghost stories
By: edited, illustrated and introduced by Audrey Niffenegger
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9781501111198
Subjects: American Ghost stories; English Ghost stories
Description: "Collected and introduced by the...author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry--including her own new illustrations for each piece, and a new story by Niffenegger--this is a unique and haunting anthology of some of the best ghost stories of all time. From Edgar Allen Poe to Kelly Link, M.R. James to Neil Gaiman, H. H. Munro to Audrey Niffenegger herself, [this book] reveals the evolution of the ghost story genre with tales going back to the eighteenth century and into the modern era, ranging across styles from Gothic Horror to Victorian, with a particular bent toward stories about haunting--haunted children, animals, houses. Every story is introduced by Audrey Niffenegger, an acclaimed master of the craft, with some words on its background and why she chose to include it"--
Table of contents: title: The Black cat  -- Edgar Allen Poe; title: Secret life, with cats  -- Audrey Niffenegger; title: Pomegranate seed  -- Edith Wharton; title: The Beckoning fair one  -- Oliver Onions; title: The Mezzotint  -- M.R. James; title: Honeysuckle cottage  -- P.G. Wodehouse; title: Click-clack the Rattlebag  -- Neil Gaiman; title: They  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: Playmates  -- A.M. Burrage; title: The July ghost  -- A.S. Byatt; title: Laura  -- Saki; title: The Open window  -- Saki; title: The Specialist's hat  -- Kelly Link; title: Tiny ghosts  -- Amy Giacalone; title: The Pink house  -- Rebecca Curtis; title: August 2026 : there will come soft rains -- Ray Bradbury.