cover image The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories

The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories

. Atlantic Monthly Press, $13 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-87113-483-7

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. (Sept.)