Editor | Darrell Schweitzer |
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Author | Lord Dunsany |
Illustrator | Tim Kirk |
Cover artist | Tim Kirk |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | ghost stories, essays, plays |
Publisher | Owlswick Press |
Publication date | 1980 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | x, 354 |
ISBN | 0-913896-14-4 |
OCLC | 07077818 |
828.91209 19 | |
LC Class | PR6007.U6 G46 1980 |
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms is a collection of ghost stories, essays and plays by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, edited by Darrell Schweitzer and illustrated by Tim Kirk. It was first published in hardcover by Owlswick Press in 1980.[1]
The book collects fourteen short stories, nineteen essays and two plays by the author, including two of his Jorkens stories, with an introductory foreword by Schweitzer.
Contents
- "Foreword" by Darrell Schweitzer
- Fiction
- "The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer" (1955)
- "Told Under Oath" (1952)
- "The Field Where the Satyrs Danced" (1928)
- "By Night in the Forest" (1953)
- "A Royal Swan" (1950)
- "How the Lost Causes Were Removed from Valhalla" (1919)
- "Correcting Nature" (1950)
- "Autumn Cricket" (1950)
- "In the Mojave" [Jorkens] (1954)
- "The Ghost of the Valley" (1954)
- "The Ghost in the Old Corridor" (1949)
- "Jorkens's Problem" [Jorkens] (1949)
- "The Revelation to Mr. Periple" (1954)
- "A Fable for Moderns" (1951)
- Essays
- "The Fantastic Dreams" (1949)
- "Nowadays" (1912)
- "Ghosts" (1938)
- "Irish Writers I Have Known" (1953)
- "Four Poets" (1958)
- "The Authorship of Barrack Room Ballads" (1956)
- "Sime" (1942)
- "Artist and Tradesman" (1918)
- "Spring Reaches England" (1938)
- "Triad" (1937)
- "July" (1944)
- "Or But a Wandering Voice" (1937)
- "After the Shadow" (1939)
- "A Moment in the Life of a Dog" (1953)
- "Seeing the World" (1950)
- "A Word for Fallen Grandeur" (1951)
- "Where Do You Get the Clay?" (1945)
- "Decay in the Language" (1936)
- "The Carving of the Ivory" (1928)
- Plays
- "The Prince of Stamboul" (1925)
- "Lord Adrian" (1933)
References
- ↑ The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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