Not Exactly Ghosts
- Written by Andrew Caldecott
- ISBN: 1-55310-036-0 (978-1-55310-036-2)
- Format: Hardcover, xxii + 276pp
- Publish Date: May 28, 2002
- Original Price: C$59.00 / US$45.00 / £28.00
- Genre: Horror
- Publication Type: Collection
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Andrew Caldecott
Andrew Caldecott (1884–1951) is one of the most distinguished people of the twentieth century to write in the genre of supernatural fiction.
About
Not Exactly Ghosts,caldecott shared James’s fondness for reticence and restraint, but he preferred to show the malign and malevolent forces in his tales through their effect on the characters unfortunate enough to encounter them. Not all of these encounters result in the horrific: many are merely annoying, while others demonstrate the author’s fondness for dark humour. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Caldecott ventured outside the cosy world of England and western Europe for story settings. A quarter of his tales are set in the fictional, yet fully realized, country of Kongea: a country with a veneer of western civilization, under which swirl dark currents of legend, superstition, and mystery, in which it is possible for the unwary interloper to fall prey to madness and death.
Edition Details
- Dust Jacket illustrated by Paul Lowe.
- This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.
Contents:
- Introduction
- NOT EXACTLY GHOSTS:
- A Room in a Rectory
- Branch Line to Benceston
- Sonata in D minor
- Autoepitaphy
- The Pump in Thorp's Spinney
- Whiffs of the Sea
- In Due Course
- Light in the Darkness
- Decastroland
- A Victim of Medusa
- Fits of the Blues
- Christmas Re-union
- FIRES BURN BLUE:
- An Exchange of Notes
- Cheap and Nasty
- Grey Brothers
- Quintet
- Authorship Disputed
- Final Touches
- What's in a Name?
- Under the Mistletoe
- His Name was Legion
- Tall Tales but True
- A Book Entry
- Seeds of Remembrance
- Seated One Day at the Organ
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External Links
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