Nightshade 20th Century Ghost Stories As this expertly edited anthology shows, the genre of the ghost story attracts an unusual number of first-rate "realistic" fiction writers. What occasional ghost story writer Henry James called "the terror of the unusual," instead of bogeymen from around the campfire, haunts the outstanding stories collected here. Veteran anthologist Robert Phil... more »ips again matches the great names of 20th century literature with spectral subject matter. Featured authors include Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Bowen, and Max Beerbohm, as well as contemporary writers such as Alison Lurie, Joyce Carol Oates, and Muriel Spark. Readers will also be surprised to find experiments in supernatural, psychological terror from Franz Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Trevor, and Edith Wharton.« less