The Literary Ghost
Subtitle: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: January 13, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780871134837
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; Ghost stories, English; Fiction - Horror; Fiction; Horror - General; Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Ghost stories, American; Ghosts
First sentence: The few people who did not like Mr. and Mrs. Beddoes laughed, perhaps jealously, at their ambience of golden wedding, their greeting-card happiness.
Table of contents: title: "The Lost, Strayed, Stolen," M.F.K. Fisher; title: "The Portobello Road," Muriel Spark; title: "The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees," Robertson Davies; title: "The Others," Joyce Carol Oates; title: "A Story of Don Juan," V.S. Pritchett; title: "Up North," Mavis Gallant; title: "The Warden," John Gardner; title: "The Death of Edward Lear," Donald Barthelme; title: "The Circular Valley," Paul Bowles; title: "The Third Voice," William Ferguson; title: "Marmilion," Patrick McGrath; title: "Spirit Seizures," Melissa Pritchard; title: "Revenant as Typewriter," Penelope Lively; title: "Ghostly Populations," Jack Matthews; title: "The Ghost Soldiers," Tim O'Brien; title: "Family," Lance Olsen; title: "Letter from a Dogfioghter's Aunt, Deceased," Padgett Powell; title: "The Ghost," Anne Sexton; title: "Angel, All Innocence," Fay Weldon; title: "Jack's Girl," Cynthia Kadohata; title: "The Next Room," A.S. Byatt; title: "Grass," Barry Yourgrau; title: "Eisenheim the Illusionist," Steven Millhauser; title: "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt," William Goyen; title: "Letter from His Father," Nadine Gordimer; title: "Old Man of the Temple," R.K. Narayan; title: "A Little Place Off the Edgware Road," Graham Greene; title: "A Crown of Feathers," Isaac Bashevis Singer