The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark

✍ Scribed by Muriel Spark

• Book ID: 100244048
• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 1994;2003
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 107 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0811221520

✦ Synopsis

Eight spooky stories from the mistress of the unexpected.I aim to startle as well as please," Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhaps may not even be aware of being a ghost at all. One in fact is the ghost of a man who isn't even dead yet. Another takes the bus home from work, believing she is still alive, though she is haunted by an odious tune stuck in her head (which her murderer had been relentlessly humming), and distressed by a "feeling of incompletion." And a reflective ghost recalls her mortal days of enjoying "the glory of the world, as if it would never pass. Spark has a flair for confiding ghosts: "I must explain that I departed this life nearly five years ago. But I did not altogether depart this world. There were those odd things still to be...