The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms

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]

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

• "Foreword" by Darrell Schweitzer
• Fiction
  • "The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer" (1955)
  • "Told Under Oath" (1952)
  • "The Field Where the Satyrs Danced" (1928)
  • "By Night in the Forest" (1953)
  • "A Royal Swan" (1950)
  • "How the Lost Causes Were Removed from Valhalla" (1919)
  • "Correcting Nature" (1950)
  • "Autumn Cricket" (1950)
  • "In the Mojave" [Jorkens] (1954)
  • "The Ghost of the Valley" (1954)
  • "The Ghost in the Old Corridor" (1949)
  • "Jorkens's Problem" [Jorkens] (1949)
  • "The Revelation to Mr. Periple" (1954)
  • "A Fable for Moderns" (1951)
• Essays
  • "The Fantastic Dreams" (1949)
  • "Nowadays" (1912)
  • "Ghosts" (1938)
  • "Irish Writers I Have Known" (1953)
  • "Four Poets" (1958)
  • "The Authorship of Barrack Room Ballads" (1956)
  • "Sime" (1942)
  • "Artist and Tradesman" (1918)
  • "Spring Reaches England" (1938)
  • "Triad" (1937)
  • "July" (1944)
  • "Or But a Wandering Voice" (1937)
  • "After the Shadow" (1939)
  • "A Moment in the Life of a Dog" (1953)
  • "Seeing the World" (1950)
  • "A Word for Fallen Grandeur" (1951)
  • "Where Do You Get the Clay?" (1945)
  • "Decay in the Language" (1936)
  • "The Carving of the Ivory" (1928)
• Plays
  • "The Prince of Stamboul" (1925)
  • "Lord Adrian" (1933)

References

External links

• Fantastic Fiction entry for The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layers