Nightshade

by Phillips, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780786706143
• ISBN10: 0786706147
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
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Summary

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."

Table of Contents

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