Russell Kirk

Russell Amos Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, lecturer, author, and novelist who influenced 20th century American conservatism. In 1953, he authored The Conservative Mind, which outlined and traced the development of socio-conservative thought in the works of Anglo-American tradition, such as those of Edmund Burke.

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Off The Sand Road: Ghost Stories Volume One,russell Kirk is the author of Off The Sand Road.

Off The Sand Road: Ghost Stories Volume One,in his introduction to this, the first of two volumes for Ash-Tree Press collecting together Russell Kirk’s short supernatural fiction, editor John Pelan discusses the author’s works, pointing out the connections between Kirk’s short stories and novels, which together form a complex tapestry of recurring characters, settings, and themes. Also included is Kirk’s essay ”A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale“, in which the author writes that his stories are inhabited by ”retributive ghosts, malign magicians, blind angels, beneficent phantoms, conjuring witches, demonic possession, creatures of the twilight, divided selves. . . . But let me say also that my bogles are not to be taken lightly.“ On a more hopeful note, however, he affirms his belief, demonstrated in his stories, that dark powers do not rule the universe; that ”by bell, book, and candle, symbolically at least, we can push them down under.“

Edition Details

• Dust Jacket illustrated by Russell Kirk.
• This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.

External Links

• Off The Sand Road: Ghost Stories Volume One. ISFDB entry for Off The Sand Road: Ghost Stories Volume One