GHOSTS BY GASLIGHT, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers, pulls together a wonderful anthology of supernatural and steampunk tales: haunted houses, phantoms beneath the floorboards, ghostly coachmen, ghosts in the machine, gaslit streets, deep frights, and twisted variations on the dark stories of old.
The lineup of authors is simply fantastic:
James Morrow -- “The Iron Shroud”
Peter S. Beagle -- “Music, When Soft Voices Die”
Terry Dowling -- “The Shaddowwes Box”
Garth Nix -- “The Curious Case of the Moondawn Daffodils Murder As Experienced by Sir Magnus Holmes and Almost-Doctor Susan Shrike”
Gene Wolfe -- “Why I Was Hanged”
Margo Lanagan -- “The Proving of Smollett Standforth”
Sean Williams -- “The Jade Woman of the Luminous Star”
Robert Silverberg -- “Smithers and the Ghosts of the Thar”
John Langan -- “The Unbearable Proximity of Mr. Dunn’s Balloons”
John Harwood -- “Face to Face”
Richard Harland -- “Bad Thoughts and the Mechanism”
Marly Youmans -- “The Grave Reflection”
Theodora Goss -- “Christopher Raven”
Lucius Shepard -- “The Rose Street Attractors”
Laird Barron -- “Blackwood’s Baby”
Paul Park -- “Mysteries of the Old Quarter”
Jeffrey Ford -- “The Summer Palace”
This collection is perfect for everyone who loves ghost stories or the works of Poe and Wilkie Collins, plus the many fans of steampunk and smart horror. Dive in-just make sure you keep the lights on!
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