Nightshade

From Rudyard Kipling to Joyce Carol Oates, this century's literary masters offer 28 tales of terror in a companion volume to "The Triumph of the Night."

Acknowledgments

ix

(4)

Introduction

xiii

1. Ghosts on the Lake

1

(6)

Ilse Aichinger

2. Sonata for Harp and Bicycle

7

(10)

Joan Aiken

3. Enoch Soames

17

(30)

Max Beerbohm

4. The Happy Autumn Fields

47

(18)

Elizabeth Bowen

5. Oh Father, Father, Why Have You Come Back?

65

(9)

John Cheever

6. Dead Women's Things

74

(3)

Kathy Chwedyk

7. The Upper Berth

77

(23)

F. Marion Crawford

8. The Supper at Elsinore

100

(50)

Isak Dinesen

9. Lost Lives

150

(16)

Max Eberts

10. The Shadowy Third

166

(25)

Ellen Glasgow

11. A Shape of Light

191

(26)

William Goyen

12. W.S.

217

(12)

L. P. Hartley

13. The Astral Body of a U.S. Mail Truck

229

(11)

James Leo Herlihy

14. The Bus

240

(14)

Shirley Jackson

15. The Friends of the Friends

254

(28)

Henry James

16. Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor

282

(23)

Franz Kafka

17. "They"

305

(23)

Rudyard Kipling

18. The Highboy

328

(16)

Alison Lurie

19. The Ghosts of August

344

(3)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

20. The Doll

347

(23)

Joyce Carol Oates

21. Wolfie

370

(10)

Robert Phillips

22. A Spiritualist

380

(4)

Jean Rhys

23. Owl

384

(4)

Elizabeth Spencer

24. A Gracious Rain

388

(17)

Christopher Tilghman

25. Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

405

(17)

William Trevor

26. The Leaf-Sweeper

422

(6)

Muriel Spark

27. Pomegranate Seed

428

(33)

Edith Wharton

Notes on the Authors

461

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