The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms

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The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms
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Cover of first edition of The Ghosts of the Heaviside, Layer and Other Fantasms
Editor Darrell Schweitzer
Author Lord Dunsany
Illustrator Tim Kirk
Cover artist Tim Kirk
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre ghost stories, essays, plays
Publisher Owlswick Press
Publication date
1980
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesx, 354
ISBN 0-913896-14-4
OCLC 07077818
828.91209 19
LC Class PR6007.U6 G46 1980

The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms is a collection of ghost stories, essays and plays by Anglo- Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, edited by Darrell Schweitzer and illustrated by Tim Kirk. It was first published in hardcover by Owlswick Press in 1980. [1]

Contents

The book collects fourteen short stories, nineteen essays and two plays by the author, including two of his Jorkens stories, with an introductory foreword by Schweitzer.

Contents

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