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The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories

Larry Dark

First published 1991
Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Mary Lynn Blasutta
Pages x+369
Price $22.95
ISBN 0871134748

Stated 1st printing. The {{Reginald3}} number for this collection repeats that of Satan's Victor. It's likely that 21154 was intended as no other book has that number.

Year Reviewer Publication
1992 Michael A. Morrison Necrofile, Winter 1992
1992 Steve Rasnic Tem Necrofile, Spring 1992
1992 Brian Stableford The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1992

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories) Larry Dark Essay
5 The Lost, Strayed, Stolen M. F. K. Fisher Novelette
31 The Portobello Road Muriel Spark Novelette
54 The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees Robertson Davies Short Story
64 The Others Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
69 A Story of Don Juan V. S. Pritchett Short Story
74 Up North Mavis Gallant Short Story
80 The Warden John Gardner Novelette
111 The Death of Edward Lear Donald Barthelme Short Story
115 The Circular Valley Paul Bowles Short Story
125 The Third Voice William Ferguson Short Story
127 Marmilion Patrick McGrath Short Story
144 Spirit Seizures Melissa Pritchard Short Story
156 Revenant As Typewriter Penelope Lively Short Story
171 Ghostly Populations Jack Matthews Short Story
185 The Ghost Soldiers Tim O'Brien (I) Short Story
206 Family Lance Olsen Short Story
216 Letter From a Dogfighter's Aunt, Deceased Padgett Powell Short Story
225 The Ghost Anne Sexton Short Story
230 Angel, All Innocence Fay Weldon Short Story
247 Jack's Girl Cynthia Kadohata Short Story
257 The Next Room A. S. Byatt Novelette
282 Grass Barry Yourgrau Short Story
284 Eisenheim the Illusionist Steven Millhauser Short Story
304 Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt William Goyen Short Story
314 Letter from His Father Nadine Gordimer Short Story
330 Old Man of the Temple R. K. Narayan Short Story
336 A Little Place Off the Edgware Road Graham Greene Short Story
342 A Crown of Feathers Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories Cover 1992 Atlantic Monthly Press Trade Paperback Anthology Mary Lynn Blasutta 369