Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories

By Karen Stollznow

From bestselling author Karen Stollznow comes this anthology of supernatural short fiction. The collection features eleven stories— many of which are inspired by urban legends, folklore, and history.

I Am Me
The Way We Weren't
Welcome Home
Room For One More (Lord Dufferin's Tale)
Don't Leave Me
Unforeseen Circumstances
The Dark Road
The Screaming Skull
Leap of Faith (The Guardian Angel)
Oliver & Olivia
Fisher's Ghost

The characters within these pages include lovelorn ghosts, restless spirits, deceptive demons, and deeply flawed humans—their tales all told with a twist.

These unsettling stories are guaranteed to give you nightmares.

Fans of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected will find a lot to enjoy in this collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karen Stollznow
• Release date: Oct 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005619589

Karen Stollznow

Bestselling author Karen Stollznow's non-fiction works include Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility; On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present; Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic; God Bless America; Haunting America, and Would You Believe It? Her fiction includes the anthology Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories; the novel Hits & Mrs.; and the short stories Unforeseen Circumstances; Don't Leave Me; Welcome Home; The Dark Road; I Am Me; Room for One More: Lord Dufferin's Tale; The Screaming Skull; The Way We Weren't; Leap of Faith (The Guardian Angel); and Oliver & Olivia.A host of the popular science podcast Monster Talk, she has spent many years investigating urban legends and folklore. A Doctor of Linguistics, she has taught at several universities in the United States and Australia. She was formerly a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a researcher at Griffith University. Karen was born in Sydney, Australia, and she currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

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