Hauntings

Ghosts are everywhere. They wait for you in the backseat of your car, lurk under the pile of laundry in your closet, and star in your waking nightmares.You are haunted.This fiendish anthology drags you into the twisted minds of modern literary masters at their wickedly thrilling best. Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, David Morrell, Connie Willis, and other visionary storytellers fill this rich collection of tales lyrical and strange, monstrous and exhilarating, horrific and transformative...• A sweetly vengeful voice on the radio calls a young soldier out to join a phantom patrol.• A hotel maid who threw her newborn child from a fourth-story window lingers in an interminable state.• An intern in a paranormal research facility delves deeply into the unexplained deaths of two staff members.• A serial killer plans his ultimate artistic achievement: the unveiling of an extremely special instrument in a very private concert.At once familiar and shocking, these riveting stories will haunt you long after you put down your book and turn out the light.Table of Contents“Anna” by F. Paul Wilson“Cargo” by E. Michael Lewis“Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie” by Pat Cadigan“Hunger: A Confession” by Dale Bailey“Delta Sly Honey” by Lucius Shepard“Nothing Will Hurt You” by David Morell“The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad #4)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan“Haunted” by Joyce Carol Oates“The Have-Nots” by Elizabeth Hand“Closing Time” by Neil Gaiman“Mr. Fiddlehead” by Jonathan Carroll“The Fooly” by Terry Dowling“The Wall” by Paul Walther“The Pennine Tower Restaurant” by Simon Kurt Unsworth“Distress Call” by Connie Willis“The Horn” by Stephen Gallagher“Everybody Goes” by Michael Marshall Smith“Transfigured Night” by Richard Bowes“Hula Ville” by James P. Blaylock“The Bedroom Light” by Jeffrey Ford“Spectral Evidence” by Gemma Files“Where Angels Come In” by Adam L. G. Nevill“Two Houses” by Kelly Link