First published 1991
This collection gathers twenty-eight supernatural tales from acclaimed American authors. Mary Higgins Clark delivers a vision that splits reality in two. Donald E. Westlake explores what lies beyond the final breath. Harlan Ellison conjures a slot machine with deadly allure. H.P. Lovecraft resurrects the dead through twisted science. Ambrose Bierce twice ventures into ghostly territory with isolated encounters. Joyce Carol Oates peers into the shadow world that parallels our own. Each story pulls readers into encounters with spirits, phantoms, and otherworldly forces. The tales span decades of American supernatural fiction, from classic authors to modern voices. These writers transform ordinary settings into places where the dead walk among the living. The collection showcases how ghost stories reflect uniquely American fears and landscapes, from farmhouses to city streets, from the Old West to contemporary suburbs.
Genres: anthologies, american-fiction, 20th-century, american, ghost-stories, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: otherworldly-forces, supernatural
Period: Decades, Old West, Suburbs
512 pages · Hardcover · Rutledge Hill Pr