Before and Afterlives: Stories
- ISBN-10
- 1590213696
- ISBN-13
- 9781590213698
- Category
- Ghost stories, American.
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Lethe Press
- Author
- Christopher Barzak
Description
Discover the haunting stories of Crawford Award-winning author Christopher Barzak in his new collection Before and Afterlives. These are tales of relationships with unearthly domesticity and eeriness: a woman falls in love with a haunted house; a beached mermaid is substituted for a lost missing daughter; the imaginary friend of a murdered young mother stalks the streets of her small town; a teenage boy is afflicted with a disease that causes him to vanish; a father exploits his daughter's talent for calling ghosts to her; and a wife leaves her husband and children to fulfill her obligations to a world from which she escaped.
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