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)

Footnotes

External links

• Fantastic Fiction entry for The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layers