In this new collection, which contains most of the ghost stories of Tanith Lee – including 4 new tales original to this volume – Lee slips freely through the full gamut of Fantasy, SF, Horror, Historical, Parallel and Contemporary genres. The themes range, amongst others, with a lost love in early 20th Century New Zealand, a bullied child in 1970’s India, into the underhill palace of a brooding magician in search of wonders, among the guests of a modern spiky wedding-breakfast, and beside a psychic, on a far planet whose damson skies are adrift with flying whales...
The moods conjured are dark, unnerving or plain nasty; or else sad, tender, kind and - now and then – outright crazy.
Turn up the light. And don’t look behind you.
Contents:
Ablan
The Abortionist’s Horse (A Nightmare)
Blue Vase of Ghosts
The Ghost (In Two Letters)
The Ghost of the Clock
The Lady-Of-Shalott House
The Minstrel’s Tale
A Night on the Hill
Seeing, Believing
The Sky Won’t Listen
The Squire’s Tale
Tan
Thuvia Made of Mars (Spilt Milk)
The Winter Ghosts
Yesterday
Yesternight