Ghosts by gaslight : stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense / edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dann, Jack, editor.

Gevers, Nick, editor.

Alamy, Christian, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paranormal fiction.

Genre:

Ghost stories.

Science fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 389 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Voyager, [2011]

Summary:

A collection of steampunk and supernatural tales that breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.

Contents:

The iron shroud / James Morrow

Music, when soft voices die / Peter S. Beagle

The shaddowwes box / Terry Dowling

The curious case of the moondawn daffodils murder / Garth Nix

Why I was hanged / Gene Wolfe

The proving of Smollett Standforth / Margo Lanagan

The jade woman of the luminous star / Sean Williams

Smithers and the ghosts of the Thar / Robert Silverberg

The unbearable proximity of Mr. Dunn's balloons / John Langan

Face to face / John Harwood

Bad thoughts and the mechanism / Richard Harland

The grave reflection / Marly Youmans

Christopher Raven / Theodora Goss

Rose Street attractors / Lucius Shepard

Blackwood's baby / Laird Barron

Mysteries of the Old Quarter / Paul Park

The summer palace / Jeffrey Ford.

Notes:

Cover photgraph collage by Alamy.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy is: Compliments of the publisher for course consideration.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 357696

ISBN:

9780061999710

0061999717

OCLC:

704375203