What Shadows We Pursue: Ghost Stories Volume II

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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What Shadows We Pursue: Ghost Stories Volume II,russell Kirk is the author of What Shadows We Pursue.

What Shadows We Pursue: Ghost Stories Volume II,kirk’s characters-some honourable, some not-battle quiet terrors that assail them from within as well as from without, and this theme finds its fullest expression in two of his finest tales: “The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost”, which begins this volume, and “Watchers at the Strait Gate”, which ends it. In Kirk’s tales, few people are either wholly good or bad; the inhabitants of his distinctive world come in shades of grey, and the landscapes in which they walk are haunted as much by each other as by any dwellers from other, unknown lands.

Edition Details
  • Dust Jacket illustrated by Russell Kirk.
  • This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.
Contents:
  • Introduction by John Pelan
  • The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost
  • What Shadows We Pursue
  • The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion
  • Uncle Isaiah
  • The Reflex-Man in Whinnymuir Close
  • The Cellar of Little Egypt
  • Skyberia
  • Lost Lake
  • The Last God's Dream
  • Ex Tenebris
  • Watchers at the Strait Gate
  • Appendix: Fate's Purse.
Related Titles
Off The Sand Road: Ghost Stories Volume One
Off The Sand Road: Ghost Stories Volume One
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