Bibliograph

The ghosts of the Heaviside layer, and other fantasms, by Lord Dunsany ; foreword by Darrell Schweitzer ; ill. by Tim Kirk

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Label

The ghosts of the Heaviside layer, and other fantasms, by Lord Dunsany ; foreword by Darrell Schweitzer ; ill. by Tim Kirk

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

The ghosts of the Heaviside layer, and other fantasms

Oclc number

7077818

Responsibility statement

by Lord Dunsany ; foreword by Darrell Schweitzer ; ill. by Tim Kirk

Summary

The book collects fourteen short stories, nineteen essays and two plays by the author, including two of his Jorkens stories, with an introductory foreword by Schweitzer. --, From Goodreads

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Darrell Schweitzer -- Stories: The ghosts of the Heaviside laye -- Told under oath -- The field where the satyrs danced -- by night in the forest -- A royal swan -- How the lost causes were removed from Valhalla -- Correcting nature -- Autumn cricket -- In the Mojave -- The ghost in the old corridor -- Jorkens's problem -- The revelation th Mr. Periple -- A fable for moderns -- Essays: The fantastic dreams -- nowadays -- Ghosts -- Irish writers I have known -- Four poets -- The authorship of barrack room ballads -- Sime -- Artist and tradesman -- Spring reaches England -- Triad -- July -- Or but a wandering voice -- After the shadow -- A moment in the life of a dog -- Seeing the world -- A word for fallen grandeur -- Where do you get the clay? -- Decay in the language -- The carving of the ivory -- Plays: The prince of Stamboul -- Lord Adrian

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