In Lucius Shepard’s “Rose Street Attractors” a man is asked to solve a murder of a woman whose ghost continues to appear. Ghosts by gaslight (2011 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. A mysterious valley in India is the setting for Robert Silverberg’s “Smithers and the Ghosts of the Thar”. Ghosts by gaslight by Jack Dann, Nick Gevers, 2011, Harper Voyager edition, in English - 1st ed. In Terry Dowling’s “The Shaddowwes Box” revenge is sweet when a man that survived a murder attempt uses a special box to deal out his justice. Edited by Jack Dann (World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of Dreaming Down Under) and Nick Gevers (acclaimed editor and book reviewer), Ghosts by Gaslight is a showcase collection of all-new stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense by modern masters of horror, fantasy, sf, and the paranormal.

There are seventeen stories that include many well known writers: Gene Wolfe, Sean Williams, and Laird Barron. His work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewi. Many are written true to the style and have the feel of the classic ghost stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense Dann Jack, Gevers Nick HarperCollins USA 9780061999710 . Jack Dann has written or edited over seventy-five books, including the international bestsellers The Memory Cathedral, The Rebel, The Silent, Bad Medicine, and The Man Who Melted. The stories are eerie and disturbing but are more chilling than frightening. The idea behind this collection was to combine the ghost story with technology and to reflect the emerging new science of the Victorian era. From one story that has a machine that attracts the dead to another tale where a young boy must face a nightly visitor alone in his room, the classic ghost story is celebrated and explored in Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspenseedited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers.

Ghosts by Gaslight by Jack Dann