Ghosts by gaslight
Subtitle: stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense
By: edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780061999710
Description: A collection of steampunk and supernatural tales that breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.
Table of contents: title: The iron shroud  -- James Morrow; title: Music, when soft voices die  -- Peter S. Beagle; title: The shaddowwes box  -- Terry Dowling; title: The curious case of the moondawn daffodils murder  -- Garth Nix; title: Why I was hanged  -- Gene Wolfe; title: The proving of Smollett Standforth  -- Margo Lanagan; title: The jade woman of the luminous star  -- Sean Williams; title: Smithers and the ghosts of the Thar  -- Robert Silverberg; title: The unbearable proximity of Mr. Dunn's balloons  -- John Langan; title: Face to face  -- John Harwood; title: Bad thoughts and the mechanism  -- Richard Harland; title: The grave reflection  -- Marly Youmans; title: Christopher Raven  -- Theodora Goss; title: Rose Street attractors  -- Lucius Shepard; title: Blackwood's baby  -- Laird Barron; title: Mysteries of the Old Quarter  -- Paul Park; title: The summer palace -- Jeffrey Ford.