Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories ed. Robert Phillips (Carroll & Graf, June 1999, 0-7867-0614-7, $25.00, 470+xviipp, hc, an)
Anthology of 27 ghost stories by noted “literary” authors including Shirley Jackson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joan Aiken, and F. Marion Crawford. Details supplied by Alan Perfect.
- ix · Introduction · Robert Phillips · in
- 1 · Ghosts on the Lake · Ilse Aichinger; translated by Eric Mosbacher · ss The Bound Man and Other Stories by Ilse Aichinger, tr. Eric Mosbacher, Secker & Warburg, 1955
translated from the German (“Seegeister”, Der Gefesselte Erzahlungen, S. Fischer, 1953).
- 7 · Sonata for Harp and Bicycle · Joan Aiken · ss Argosy (UK) August 1958
- 17 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916
- 47 · The Happy Autumn Fields · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Cornhill Magazine November 1944
- 65 · Oh Father, Father, Why Have You Come Back? · John Cheever · ex from The Wapshot Scandal, Harper & Row, 1964; chapter 3.
- 74 · Dead Women’s Things · Kathy Chwedyk · vi Horrors! 365 Scary Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998
- 77 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885
- 100 · The Supper at Elsinore · Isak Dinesen · na Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen, Smith & Haas, 1934
- 150 · Lost Lives · Max Eberts · ss
- 166 · The Shadowy Third · Ellen Glasgow · nv Scribner’s Magazine December 1916
- 191 · A Shape of Light · William Goyen · nv Southwest Review v37 #1, Winter 1952
- 217 · W.S. · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review January 1952
- 229 · The Astral Body of a U.S. Mail Truck · James Leo Herlihy · ss Mademoiselle February 1963
- 240 · The Bus · Shirley Jackson · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 27 1965
- 254 · The Friends of the Friends · Henry James · nv Chapman’s Magazine May 1896, as “The Way It Came”
- 282 · Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor · Franz Kafka; translated by Tania Stern & James Stern · nv Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, Schocken, 1946
translated from the German (“Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle”, Beschreibung eines Kampfes, 1936).
- 305 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904
- 328 · The Highboy · Alison Lurie · ss Redbook October 1990, as “A Curious Haunting”
- 344 · The Ghosts of August · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Edith Grossman · ss Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez, Knopf, 1993
- 347 · The Doll · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch 1980
- 370 · Wolfie · Robert Phillips · ss 1997
- 380 · A Spiritualist · Jean Rhys · vi The Left Bank and Other Stories by Jean Rhys, Jonathan Cape, 1927
- 384 · Owl · Elizabeth Spencer · ss
- 388 · A Gracious Rain · Christopher Tilghman · ss In a Father’s Place by Christopher Tilghman, 1990
- 405 · Mrs. Acland’s Ghosts · William Trevor · ss Angels at the Ritz by William Trevor, Bodley Head, 1975
- 422 · The Leaf-Sweeper · Muriel Spark · ss The London Mystery Magazine #31, December 1956
- 428 · Pomegranate Seed · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 25 1931
- 461 · Notes on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg
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