The author of the acclaimed novel The Brief History of the Dead now gives us one hundred funny, poignant, scary, and thought-provoking ghost stories that explore all aspects of the afterlife. A spirit who appears in a law firm reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, a man haunted by the trees cut down to build his house, nefarious specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows in which they live, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead--these are just a few of the characters Kevin Brockmeier presents in this extraordinary compendium of spectral emanations…mehr
The author of the acclaimed novel The Brief History of the Dead now gives us one hundred funny, poignant, scary, and thought-provoking ghost stories that explore all aspects of the afterlife. A spirit who appears in a law firm reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, a man haunted by the trees cut down to build his house, nefarious specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows in which they live, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead--these are just a few of the characters Kevin Brockmeier presents in this extraordinary compendium of spectral emanations and their wildly various purposes in (after) life. These tales are by turns playful, chilling, and philosophical, paying homage to the genre while audaciously subverting expectations. The ghosts in these pages are certain to haunt you well after you've closed the book.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
GHOSTS AND MEMORY One: A Notable Social Event • 3 Two: The Guidance Counselor • 5 Three: A Hatchet, Several Candlesticks, a Pincushion, and a Top Hat • 7 Four: Milo Krain • 9 Five: Amnesia • 11 Six: A Long Chain of Yesterdays • 13
GHOSTS AND FORTUNE Seven: The Hitchhiker • 19 Eight: Wishes • 21 Nine: How to Play • 23 Ten: The Scales of Fortune • 25 Eleven: A Moment, However Small • 27 Twelve: A Gathering • 29 Thirteen: Mira Amsler • 31
GHOSTS AND NATURE Fourteen: Elephants • 37 Fifteen: The White Mare • 39 Sixteen: Many Additional Animals • 41 Seventeen: Bees • 43 Eighteen: A Blight on the Landscape • 45 Nineteen: An Ossuary of Trees • 47 Twenty: Things That Fall from the Sky • 49 Twenty-one: A Story with a Drum Beating Inside It • 51 Twenty-two: The Sandbox Initiative • 53 Twenty-three: Renewable Resources • 55
GHOSTS AND TIME Twenty-four: Thirteen Visitations • 61 Twenty-five: The Office of Hereafters and Dissolutions • 63 Twenty-six: An Obituary • 65 Twenty-seven: The Midpoint • 67 Twenty-eight: The Whirl of Time • 69 Twenty-nine: Minnows • 71 Thirty: A Story Swaying Back and Forth • 73 Thirty-one: A Time-Travel Story with a Little Romance and a Happy Ending • 75
GHOSTS AND SPECULATION Thirty-two: The Phantasm vs the Statue • 81 Thirty-three: Footprints • 83 Thirty-four: Passengers • 85 Thirty-five: New Life, New Civilizations • 87 Thirty-six: A Blackness Went Fluttering By • 89 Thirty-seven: The Prism • 91 Thirty-eight: His Womanhood • 93 Thirty-nine: There Are People, They Had Lives • 95 Forty: The Soldiers of the 115th Regiment • 97
GHOSTS AND VISION Forty-one: Action! • 103 Forty-two: The Way the Ring of a Moat Becomes Comforting to a Fish • 105 Forty-three: Spectrum • 107 Forty-four: Every House Key, Every Fire Hydrant, Every Electrical Outlet • 109 Forty-five: The Walls • 111 Forty-six: Playtime • 113 Forty-seven: All His Life • 115 Forty-eight: Take It with Me • 117 Forty-nine: A Story Seen in Glimpses Through the Mist • 119
GHOSTS AND THE OTHER SENSES Fifty: A Lifetime of Touch • 125 Fifty-one: The Runner-Up • 127 Fifty-two: So Many Songs • 129 Fifty-three: A Matter of Acoustics • 131 Fifty-four: Bouquet • 133 Fifty-five: The Mud Odor of the Snow Melting in the Fields • 135 Fifty-six: Instrumentology • 137 Fifty-seven: When the Room Is Quiet, the Daylight Almost Gone • 139 Fifty-eight: A Sort of Fellow • 141 Fifty-nine: A Lesser Feeling • 143
GHOSTS AND BELIEF Sixty: A Small Disruption of Reality • 149 Sixty-one: The Abnormalist and the Usualist • 151 Sixty-two: Real Estate • 153 Sixty-three: Which Are the Crystals, Which the Solution • 155 Sixty-four: Countless Strange Couplings and Separations • 157 Sixty-five: Rapture • 159 Sixty-six: 666 • 161
GHOSTS AND LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP Sixty-seven: Lost and Found • 167 Sixty-eight: Another Man in a Mirror • 169 Sixty-nine: The Apostrophes • 171 Seventy: A Man in a Mirror • 173 Seventy:-one Turnstiles • 175 Seventy-two: A True Story • 177 Seventy-three: Bullets and What It Takes to Dodge Them • 179 Seventy-four: Knees • 181 Seventy-five: The Man She Is Trying to Forget • 183 Seventy-six: The Eternities • 185 Seventy-seven: Too Late • 187 Seventy-eight: Detention • 189 Seventy-nine: I Like Your Shoes • 191
GHOSTS AND FAMILY Eighty: The Ghost’s Disguise • 197 Eighty-one: A Source of Confusion • 199 Eighty-two: Unseeable, Untouchable • 201 Eighty-three: Ghost Brothers • 203 Eighty-four: A Second True Story • 205 Eighty-five A Life • 207 Eighty-six: Extraordinary Gifts • 209 Eighty-seven: An Inherited Disorder • 211 Eighty-eight: Prayer from an Airport Terminal • 213 Eighty-nine: Hatching • 215 Ninety: Bilateral Symmetry • 217
GHOSTS AND WORDS AND NUMBERS Ninety-one: Parakeets • 223 Ninety-two: Euphemisms • 225 Ninety-three: Roughly Eighty Grams • 227 Ninety-four: The Ghost Letter • 229 Ninety-five: A Matter of Linguistic • s231 Ninety-six: Dusk and Other Stories • 233 Ninety-seven: Telephone • 235 Ninety-eight: Numbers • 237 Ninety-nine: The Census • 239 One Hundred: The Most Terrifying Ghost Story Ever Written • 241
A Partial Concordance of Themes • 245 Acknowledgments • 267
GHOSTS AND MEMORY One: A Notable Social Event • 3 Two: The Guidance Counselor • 5 Three: A Hatchet, Several Candlesticks, a Pincushion, and a Top Hat • 7 Four: Milo Krain • 9 Five: Amnesia • 11 Six: A Long Chain of Yesterdays • 13
GHOSTS AND FORTUNE Seven: The Hitchhiker • 19 Eight: Wishes • 21 Nine: How to Play • 23 Ten: The Scales of Fortune • 25 Eleven: A Moment, However Small • 27 Twelve: A Gathering • 29 Thirteen: Mira Amsler • 31
GHOSTS AND NATURE Fourteen: Elephants • 37 Fifteen: The White Mare • 39 Sixteen: Many Additional Animals • 41 Seventeen: Bees • 43 Eighteen: A Blight on the Landscape • 45 Nineteen: An Ossuary of Trees • 47 Twenty: Things That Fall from the Sky • 49 Twenty-one: A Story with a Drum Beating Inside It • 51 Twenty-two: The Sandbox Initiative • 53 Twenty-three: Renewable Resources • 55
GHOSTS AND TIME Twenty-four: Thirteen Visitations • 61 Twenty-five: The Office of Hereafters and Dissolutions • 63 Twenty-six: An Obituary • 65 Twenty-seven: The Midpoint • 67 Twenty-eight: The Whirl of Time • 69 Twenty-nine: Minnows • 71 Thirty: A Story Swaying Back and Forth • 73 Thirty-one: A Time-Travel Story with a Little Romance and a Happy Ending • 75
GHOSTS AND SPECULATION Thirty-two: The Phantasm vs the Statue • 81 Thirty-three: Footprints • 83 Thirty-four: Passengers • 85 Thirty-five: New Life, New Civilizations • 87 Thirty-six: A Blackness Went Fluttering By • 89 Thirty-seven: The Prism • 91 Thirty-eight: His Womanhood • 93 Thirty-nine: There Are People, They Had Lives • 95 Forty: The Soldiers of the 115th Regiment • 97
GHOSTS AND VISION Forty-one: Action! • 103 Forty-two: The Way the Ring of a Moat Becomes Comforting to a Fish • 105 Forty-three: Spectrum • 107 Forty-four: Every House Key, Every Fire Hydrant, Every Electrical Outlet • 109 Forty-five: The Walls • 111 Forty-six: Playtime • 113 Forty-seven: All His Life • 115 Forty-eight: Take It with Me • 117 Forty-nine: A Story Seen in Glimpses Through the Mist • 119
GHOSTS AND THE OTHER SENSES Fifty: A Lifetime of Touch • 125 Fifty-one: The Runner-Up • 127 Fifty-two: So Many Songs • 129 Fifty-three: A Matter of Acoustics • 131 Fifty-four: Bouquet • 133 Fifty-five: The Mud Odor of the Snow Melting in the Fields • 135 Fifty-six: Instrumentology • 137 Fifty-seven: When the Room Is Quiet, the Daylight Almost Gone • 139 Fifty-eight: A Sort of Fellow • 141 Fifty-nine: A Lesser Feeling • 143
GHOSTS AND BELIEF Sixty: A Small Disruption of Reality • 149 Sixty-one: The Abnormalist and the Usualist • 151 Sixty-two: Real Estate • 153 Sixty-three: Which Are the Crystals, Which the Solution • 155 Sixty-four: Countless Strange Couplings and Separations • 157 Sixty-five: Rapture • 159 Sixty-six: 666 • 161
GHOSTS AND LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP Sixty-seven: Lost and Found • 167 Sixty-eight: Another Man in a Mirror • 169 Sixty-nine: The Apostrophes • 171 Seventy: A Man in a Mirror • 173 Seventy:-one Turnstiles • 175 Seventy-two: A True Story • 177 Seventy-three: Bullets and What It Takes to Dodge Them • 179 Seventy-four: Knees • 181 Seventy-five: The Man She Is Trying to Forget • 183 Seventy-six: The Eternities • 185 Seventy-seven: Too Late • 187 Seventy-eight: Detention • 189 Seventy-nine: I Like Your Shoes • 191
GHOSTS AND FAMILY Eighty: The Ghost’s Disguise • 197 Eighty-one: A Source of Confusion • 199 Eighty-two: Unseeable, Untouchable • 201 Eighty-three: Ghost Brothers • 203 Eighty-four: A Second True Story • 205 Eighty-five A Life • 207 Eighty-six: Extraordinary Gifts • 209 Eighty-seven: An Inherited Disorder • 211 Eighty-eight: Prayer from an Airport Terminal • 213 Eighty-nine: Hatching • 215 Ninety: Bilateral Symmetry • 217
GHOSTS AND WORDS AND NUMBERS Ninety-one: Parakeets • 223 Ninety-two: Euphemisms • 225 Ninety-three: Roughly Eighty Grams • 227 Ninety-four: The Ghost Letter • 229 Ninety-five: A Matter of Linguistic • s231 Ninety-six: Dusk and Other Stories • 233 Ninety-seven: Telephone • 235 Ninety-eight: Numbers • 237 Ninety-nine: The Census • 239 One Hundred: The Most Terrifying Ghost Story Ever Written • 241
A Partial Concordance of Themes • 245 Acknowledgments • 267
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