Ghost Writing: Haunted Tales by Contemporary Writers

Ghost Writing: Haunted Tales by Contemporary Writers

Editor: Weingarten, Roger
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 328pp.
Pub. Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Invisible Cities Press
Original Pub: October 2000 (Hardcover — Invisible Cities)

Ghost stories are irresistible to everyone, including many of today’s greatest writers.

This collection of haunting tales serves up chills and thrills with the intelligence and emotional resonance that only comes from great writing.

Whether it’s John Updike writing about a shadowy Indian in a coastal New England town or T. Coraghessan Boyle’s tale of a vengeful statue of the Virgin Mary, this collection shows how delicious it can be to curl up with master storytellers and the things that go bump in the night.

Author Biography: Roger Weingarten is the former director of creative writing at Vermont College and the author of Ghost Wrestling, Infant Bonds of Joy, and Shadow, Shadow. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Roger Weingarten
• The Party Over There by Jennifer Rachel Baumer
• The Miracle at Ballinspittle by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Visitation by Robert Coover
• Run Ragged by Laurence Davies
• Floggings by Kathryn Davis
• Le Mooz by Louise Erdrich
• A Piece of the True Cross by Douglas Glover
• A Troll Story: Lessons in What Matters, No. 1 by Nicola Griffith
• Order by Shelby Hearon
• The Day Ghost by David Huddle
• The Train, the Lake, the Bridge by Bret Lott
• Doors by Pamela Painter
• Achilles’ Grave by Ben Pastor
• Come Fly with Me by Timothy Schmand
• Insomnia by Curtis Smith
• Hunger, an Introduction by Peter Straub
• The Indian by John Updike
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience by Guy Vanderhaeghe
• Aura, Cry, Fall, and Fit by Roger Weingarten
• Hyannis Boat by W. D. Wetherell
• The Way He Knew It by Rick Zind