Nightmare and Nostalgia: Fifteen Wicked Little Ghost Stories

If ghosts represent incarnations of their former identities trapped in a dreamlike state, are they still subject to corporeal emotions: fear, anger, melancholy, lust, longing, love, or vengeance? And are ghosts only meaningful when juxtaposed against the living, still playing their phantom hands through spiritual agency? This collection of short ghost stories demonstrates an assortment of ethereal experiences. Asylum inmates lying in wait for a pair of urban spelunkers. An authentic phantom who makes herself at home in a Halloween funhouse. A doppelganger. A pair of skeletons, sold at auction. A pioneer family of the undead, protecting their ancient cemetery. Settings of these stories range from Britain to America to Peru. Ghosts manifest in both human and animal form. And the living act equally as advocates and adversaries of the dead and their material remnants.

About the Author

Joan Carol Bird taught 9th grade English and Drama in Mesa, Arizona for 30 years. She currently works for Northern Arizona University supervising student teachers. In her spare time, Joan does freelance writing and traveling.

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