Nightshade : 20th century ghost stories

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Location	Collection	Call #
Penn Hills Library	Fiction	NIGHTSHADE
Location	Penn Hills Library
Collection	Fiction
Call Number	NIGHTSHADE

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Summary

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "How's this for a good opening-line hook for a story: "I would only draw pictures of an ocean liner, a long sleek liner with four raked funnels." How can the reader not want to learn why the narrator is so obsessed with ocean liners? This story, "Lost Lives" by Max Eberts, is just one of the delectable ghostly stories gathered in a new, compelling companion to editor Phillips' first such anthology, Triumph of the Night (1989). Here to be enjoyed is the creepy charm of Shirley Jackson and the intellectual frightfulness of Henry James. Ghost story enthusiasts would expect to find Elizabeth Bowen included, but how many aficionados would anticipate the appearance of a John Cheever story? Mixing well with classic writers--including, among others, Isak Dinesen and Edith Wharton--are many contemporary voices, such as Alison Lurie and Joyce Carol Oates. --Brad Hooper"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

Additional Information

Subjects	Ghost stories, English. Ghost stories, American. English fiction -- 20th century. American fiction -- 20th century.
Publisher	New York :Carroll & Graf Publishers,1999
Contributors	Phillips, Robert, 1938-2022
Language	English
Description	xvii, 470 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN	0786706147
Other	Classic View