Nightshade 20th Century Ghost Stories

The phantasms, shades, and specters in this collection of ghost stories by contemporary writers like Alison Lurie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joyce Carol Oates, Muriel Spark, and William Trevor as well as such modern literary giants as Henry James, Isak Dinesen, Franz Kafka, Edith Wharton, and Rudyard Kipling write letters, carry lanterns, ride bicycles, patrol halls, run motorboats, rake leaves, and deliver mail. They also inhabit dolls and sticks of furniture. Some of them merely haunt houses, while others invade the darkest corners of the soul.