Last stories and other stories / William T. Vollmann.
"A collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic.... All these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death."--
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New York, New York :
Viking,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Escape
- Listening to the shells
- The leader
- The treasure of Jovo Cirtovich
- The Madonna's forehead
- Cat goddess
- The trench ghost
- The faithful wife
- Doroteja
- The judge's promise
- June eighteenth
- The cemetery of the world
- Two kings in Ziñogava
- The white-armed lady
- Where your treasure is
- The memory stone
- The narrow passage
- The queen's grave
- Star of Norway
- The forgetful ghost
- The ghost of Rainy Mountain
- The camera ghost
- The cherry tree ghost
- Paper ghosts
- Widow's weeds
- The banquet of death
- The grave-house
- Defiance
- Too late
- When we were seventeen
- The answer
- Goodbye.