The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories by Lance Olsen, Graham Greene, Melissa Pritchard, Jack Matthews, M.F.K. Fisher, Paul Bowles, Cynthia Kadohata, Muriel Spark, Anne Sexton, Mavis Gallant, Joyce Carol Oates, R.K. Narayan, A.S. Byatt, Tim O'Brien, William Ferguson, William Goyen, Robinson Davies, Barry Yourgrau, Nadine Gordimer, Larry Dark, Padgett Powell, Donald Barthelme, Fay Weldon, V.S. Pritchett, Patrick McGrath, Penelope Lively, John Gardner, Steven Millhauser, Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories

Lance Olsen, Graham Greene, Melissa Pritchard, Jack Matthews, M.F.K. Fisher, Paul Bowles, Cynthia Kadohata, Muriel Spark, Anne Sexton, Mavis Gallant, Joyce Carol Oates, R.K. Narayan, A.S. Byatt, Tim O'Brien, William Ferguson, William Goyen, Robinson Davies, Barry Yourgrau, Nadine Gordimer, Larry Dark, Padgett Powell, Donald Barthelme, Fay Weldon, V.S. Pritchett, Patrick McGrath, Penelope Lively, John Gardner, Steven Millhauser, Isaac Bashevis Singer

364 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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"It takes a certain amount of daring for a literary writer to employ a device as powerful and obvious as a ghost, and a great deal of talent and self-assurance to pull it off. The fact that these stories are so different from one another and that ...

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