Echoes

The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

Gemma Files, Ford Madox Ford, Jeffrey Ford, Alice Hoffman, Carole Johnstone, Stephen Graham Jones, Richard Kadrey, John Langan, Alison Littlewood, Bracken Macleod, Nick Mamatas, Vincent J. Masterson, Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, Joyce Carol Oates, M. Rickert, M. L. Siemienowicz, Lee Thomas, Paul Tremblay, A. C. Wise, Ellen Datlow

• Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781534413481
• Print ISBN:
  9781534413474

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.

Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen Datlow—the most lauded editor in short works of supernatural suspense and dark fantasy. The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories is her definitive collection of ghost stories.

These twenty-nine stories, including all new works from New York Times bestselling authors Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay, span from the traditional to the eclectic, from the mainstream to the literary, from pure fantasy to the bizarrely supernatural. Whether you’re reading alone under the covers with a flashlight, or around a campfire with a circle of friends, there’s something here to please—and spook—everyone.

Contributors include: Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Vincent J. Masterson, A.C. Wise, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Lee Thomas, Alison Littlewood, M.L. Siemienowicz, Richard Kadrey, Indrapramit Das, Richard Bowes, Nick Mamatas, Terry Dowling, Aliette de Bodard, Carole Johnstone, Dale Bailey, Stephen Graham Jones, Bracken MacLeod, Garth Nix, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Gemma Files, Paul Tremblay, Nathan Ballingrud, Pat Cadigan, John Langan.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Introduction
• 1. Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person
• 2. Linger Longer
• 3. Whimper Beg
• 4. The July Girls
• 5. About the O’Dells
• 6. A Hinterlands Haunting
• 7. The Number of Things You Remember
• 8. Must Be This Tall to Ride
• 9. The Surviving Child
• 10. The Medium’s End
• 11. A Shade of Dusk
• 12. Icarus Rising
• 13. The Puppet Motel
• 14. Air Valve Semilunar Astern
• 15. The Unwrapping
• 16. The Upper Berth
• 17. A Burning Sword for Her Cradle
• 18. Precipice
• 19. The Shooter
• 20. The Tree of Self-Knowledge
• 21. The Other Woman
• 22. The Loneliness of Not Being Haunted
• 23. Mee-Ow
• 24. Jasper Dodd’s Handbook of Spirits and Manifestations
• 25. His Haunting
• 26. The Jeweled Wren
• 27. The Air, the Ocean, the Earth, the Deep
• 28. The Ghost Sequences
• 29. Deep, Fast, Green
• 30. Natalya, Queen of the Hungry Dogs
• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• About the Editor
• Copyright