Ancestral shadows : an anthology of ghostly tales
"Ancestral Shadows collects nineteen of Russell Kirk's best ghostly tales from periodicals and anthologies published throughout his life. In the tradition of Defoe, Stevenson, Hawthorne, Coleridge, Poe, and other master writers, these frightful stories conjure the creaks and shadows of the very places where they came to life: haunted St. Andrews, the Isle of Eigg, Kellie Castle, Balcarres House, Durie House ("which has the most persistent of all country-house spectres"), and Kirk's own ancestral spooky house in Mecosta, Michigan."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., ©2004
Fiction
xvii, 406 pages ; 24 cm
9780802839381, 080283938X
55124596
Ex tenebris
Behind the stumps
Uncle Isaiah
The surly sullen bell
Balgrummo's hell
Lex talionis
What shadows we pursue
The cellar of little Egypt
Fate's purse
The princess of all lands
Sorworth Place
Saviourgate
The last god's dream
The peculiar demesne of Archvicar Gerontion
There's a long, long trail a-winding
Watchers at the strait gate
The reflex-man in Whinnymuir Close
The invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost
An encounter by Mortstone Pond
A cautionary note on the ghostly tale