Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters - Softcover

Slung, Michele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061052450 ISBN 13: 9780061052453

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2002

Synopsis

A selection of original and classic tales of features chilling works of dark fiction by Patricia Highsmith, Edith Wharton, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Thomas Tessier, Thomas M. Disch, Christopher Fowler, Lisa Tuttle, Jack Ketchum, Tabith King, John Peyton Cooke, Muriel Gray, and other literary masters. Original. 60,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Michele Slung's previous books include Fever, Slow Hand, Momilies, and I Shudder at Your Touch. She lives in Washington, DC and New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Michele Slung, an accomplished editor whose past books include I Shudder at Your Touch and Murder & Other Acts of Literature, has selected stories that muse on the matter of unfamiliar faces from eight decades of creepy fiction in Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters. In addition to the usual suspects Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, even Patricia Highsmith there are pleasant (and very literary) surprises: contributions from Shirley Jackson, Mark Helprin and Edith Wharton.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0061052450
• ISBN 13: 9780061052453
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400