The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories [Paperback]

"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 no two ghosts in them are alike is a testament to the power of the individual imagination to appropriate established myths without assuming the associated clichés." So writes Larry Dark in the introduction to this anthology of expertly crafted ghost stories by such luminaries as Donald Barthelme, Paul Bowles, A. S. Byatt, Robertson Davies, M. F. K. Fisher, John Gardner, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Patrick McGrath, R. K. Narayan, Tim O'Brien, V. S. Pritchett, Anne Sexton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Fay Weldon.

Twenty-eight subtle, modern tales from authors such as M.F.K. Fisher, Muriel Spark, I. B. Singer and Donald Barthelme, distinguished by global settings, some memorable ghostly narrators and the depiction of various religious beliefs about the spirit world.
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This is a collection of non-traditional ghost stories, mostly written since the 1990s, by such authors as Fay Weldon, Nadine Gordimer, and Paul Bowles.