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Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, L.P. Hartley, John Cheever, James Leo Herlihy, Muriel Spark, F. Marion Crawford, Jean Rhys, Ilse Aichinger, Max Eberts, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert S. Phillips, Christopher Tilghman, Henry James, Gabriel García Márquez, Ellen Glasgow, William Goyen, Alison Lurie, William Trevor, Edith Wharton, Max Beerbohm, Kathy Chwedyk, Joan Aiken, Rudyard Kipling, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Elizabeth Spencer

octavia_cade's review

3.0

I think it's fair to say that this collection of ghost stories has something for everyone. The unfortunate downside of that is it also has something that everyone will hate. I thought there were some excellent stories in here (particularly those by Aiken, Jackson, and Lurie) - but there were some as dull as ditchwater, and I stand amazed that they were ever published at all, let alone gathered up for reprints.