The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories ed. Larry Dark (Atlantic Monthly, October 1991, 0-87113-474-8, $22.95, x+369pp, hc, an, cover by Mary Lynn Blasutta)
Anthology of 28 ghost stories by literary writers.
- 1 · Introduction · Larry Dark · in
- 5 · The Lost, Strayed, Stolen · M. F. K. Fisher · nv The New Yorker March 20 1965
- 31 · The Portobello Road · Muriel Spark · nv Winter’s Tales 2, Macmillan, 1956
- 54 · The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees · Robertson Davies · ss High Spirits by Robertson Davies, Penguin, 1982
- 64 · The Others · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine August 1987
- 69 · A Story of Don Juan · V. S. Pritchett · ss Argosy (UK) September 1941
- 74 · Up North · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker November 21 1959
- 80 · The Warden · John Gardner · nv TriQuarterly #29, Winter 1974
- 111 · The Death of Edward Lear · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker January 2 1971
- 115 · The Circular Valley · Paul Bowles · ss The Delicate Prey and Other Stories by Paul Bowles, Random House, 1950
- 125 · The Third Voice · William Ferguson · vi Harper’s Magazine April 1984
- 127 · Marmilion · Patrick McGrath · ss Blood and Water by Patrick McGrath, Simon & Schuster, 1988
- 144 · Spirit Seizures · Melissa Pritchard · ss Spirit Seizures by Melissa Pritchard, University of Georgia, 1987
- 156 · Revenant as Typewriter · Penelope Lively · ss Nothing Missing But the Samovar by Penelope Lively, Heinemann, 1978
- 171 · Ghostly Populations · Jack Matthews · ss Ghostly Populations by Jack Matthews, Johns Hopkins, 1987
- 185 · The Ghost Soldiers · Tim O’Brien · nv Esquire March 1981
- 206 · Family · Lance Olsen · ss 1989
- 216 · Letter from a Dogfighter’s Aunt, Deceased · Padgett Powell · ss Typical by Padgett Powell, 1991
- 225 · The Ghost · Anne Sexton · ss 1978
- 230 · Angel, All Innocence · Fay Weldon · nv The Thirteenth Ghost Book ed. James Hale, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977
- 247 · Jack’s Girl · Cynthia Kadohata · ss The New Yorker December 7 1987
- 257 · The Next Room · Antonia S. Byatt · nv Sugar and Other Stories by Antonia Byatt, Scribner's, 1987
- 282 · Grass · Barry Yourgrau · vi 1987
- 284 · Eisenheim the Illusionist · Steven Millhauser · ss Esquire December 1989, as “The Illusionist”
- 304 · Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt · William Goyen · ss Ghost and Flesh by William Goyen, Random House, 1952
- 314 · Letter from His Father · Nadine Gordimer · ss The London Review of Books October 20 1983
- 330 · Old Man of the Temple · R. K. Narayan · ss 1985
- 336 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories by Graham Greene, Heinemann, 1947
- 342 · A Crown of Feathers · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Laurie Colwin · nv The New Yorker April 15 1972
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