The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories
This collection of twenty-six classic Canadian ghost stories spans two centuries, ranging from early masters such as Mazo de la Roche to contemporary writers including Mavis Gallant, Brian Moore and W. P. Kinsella (whose story ‘Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa’ was the basis for the movie, Field of Dreams).
First Edition
Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1990
Softcover, xii; 276 p.
Introduction by Alberto Manguel
Honoré Beaugrand and Antoine Maillet translated by Alberto Manguel
- PHILIPPE AUBERT DE GASPÉ: La Corriveau
- JOHN CHARLES DENT: The Gerrard Street Mystery
- HONORÉ BEAUGRAND: The Miser’s Ghost
- W. H. BLAKE: A Tale of the Grand Jardin
- GILBERT PARKER: The Flood
- DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT: Vengeance Is Mine
- STEPHEN LEACOCK: Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story
- MAZO DE LA ROCHE: Portrait of a Wife
- ETHEL WILSON: Mr. Sleepwalker
- A. M. KLEIN: No Traveller Returns…
- ROBERTSON DAVIES: Dickens Digested
- BRIAN MOORE: The Sight
- FARLEY MOWAT: The Snow Walker
- MAVIS GALLANT: From the Fifteenth District
- VIRGIL BURNETT: Fallowfields
- ANTONINE MAILLET: The Ghost of Lovers’ Lane
- TIMOTHY FINDLEY: Dreams
- JANE RULE: If There Is No Gate
- W. P. KINSELLA: Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa
- AUDREY THOMAS: Joseph and His Brother
- ALISTAIR MACLEOD: As Birds Bring Forth the Sun
- ERIC MCCORMACK: No Country for Old Men
- MARGARET ATWOOD: Death by Landscape
- SEAN VIRGO: Haunt
- TIM WYNNE-JONES: The Woman with the Lounge-Act Hair
- ROHINTON MISTRY: The Ghost of Firozsha Baag
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