Ghosts: Recent Hauntings

by Paula Guran (Editor)

Overview

• The spirits of the dead have walked among our legends, myths, and storiessince before recorded history. Ghostly visitations, hauntings, unquiet soulsseeking the living, vengeful wraiths, the possibility of life beyond the gravethat can somehow reach out and touch us are some of literature’s mostenduring icons. Now, in the twenty-first century, we are no less fascinated withphantoms than our cave-dwelling ancestors or our Victorian-age forebears.
• Thirty modern masters of fright and fantasy fill this anthology withshivers, chills, and spooky explorations of both sides of the veil. Be preparedto keep a light on all night!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607013549
Publisher:	Prime Books
Publication date:	08/28/2012
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.30(d)

Editorial Reviews

Fall is the traditional time for ghost stories, and readers will find a wealth of unnatural shades and haunted places in this far-ranging anthology of 29 reprints and Stephen Graham Jones’s grim original “Uncle.” Richard Bowes’s “There’s a Hole in the City” finds ghosts from New York City’s past treading the streets after 9/11. “A Soul in a Bottle” by Tim Powers is a tangled love story of a tricksy spirit looking to take advantage of the living, while John Shirley’s “Faces in Walls” reverses that premise with bloody results. Tale-tellers are as haunting as the stories they relate in Neil Gaiman’s “October in the Chair” and Barbara Roden’s “The Palace.” Spirits are bent on gruesome revenge in Sarah Monette’s “The Watcher in the Corners” and Nisi Shawl’s “Cruel Sistah.” The afterlife is nothing like you’d expect in “Ancestor Money” by Maureen F. McHugh and “Cell Call” by Marc Laidlaw. Guran delivers a diverse and solidly entertaining variety of spooks and chills. (Sept.)

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