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    Ghosts of Yesterday

    Ghosts of Yesterday

    by Jack Cady


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      ISBN-13: 9781597805278
    • Publisher: Night Shade Books
    • Publication date: 12/10/2013
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 167
    • File size: 697 KB

    Table of Contents

    The Lady With the Blind Dog1
    Jeremiah17
    Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Spirit45
    Halloween 194259
    On Writing the Ghost Story67
    The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill87
    Truck Gypsy Blues123
    Weird Row125
    Daddy Dearest135
    Jacket Copy147
    Support Your Local Griffin151
    Israel and Ernest155
    The Time that Time Forgot159

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    Ghosts of Yesterday is a stunning collection by multiple-award-winning author Jack Cady The Off Season, The Haunting of Hood Canal. Cady captures the sights and emotions of America, from the Pacific Northwest ("Jeremiah"), to the streets of San Francisco ("The Lady With the Blind Dog"), to the Midwest-heartland ("Halloween 1942"), along the roads and highways in between ("The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill"), and back into the history of the American Southeast ("The Time That Time Forgot"). The stories that make up Ghosts of Yesterday are detailed and realistic portraits of the world that, despite (and perhaps because) of their authenticity, manage to convey a sense of wonder and fantastic, where anything is possible. The characters and places that Cady brings to life demonstrate clearly why he is one of the most versatile and respected writers today... His stories will move you, and change the way you look at the world.

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    Publishers Weekly
    For more than 30 years, Cady has been one of America's great chroniclers of characters and places. In novels like The Haunting of Hood Canal and stories like "The Night They Killed Road Dog," he has relied heavily on a deep knowledge of people and of technique. Often called a writer's writer, Cady seems concerned less about categories than about the quality of his work. His new collection continues to display that excellent craftsmanship in long stories such as "The Time That Land Forgot" and "Jeremiah." Few writers can capture the rhythms of blue-collar speech as well as Cady does in "The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill," with its pithy yet descriptive dialogue. That same sense of rhythm manifests itself in the narrative: "Then, one night, the ghost showed up and there were no more wrecks. Drunks still ran off the road and tumbled down the mountain. Trucks still sometimes ended up in ditches, but that rock face never again took another truck. Could it be, it just could be, that the ghost knew he was going to have to pay off a debt?" A wonderfully luminous quality pervades Cady's fiction, sometimes because of his style, sometimes because he has allowed the reader to experience some darkly shining truth. Although marred by the inclusion of two inconsequential nonfiction pieces and one or two minor stories, this collection provides a good sample of a writer in top form. (Jan. 7) FYI: The publisher also offers a limited edition, signed and slipcased, for $60. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
    Kirkus Reviews
    A scattering of short, mostly minor efforts from one of the more underrated American writers of the fantastic (The Haunting of Hood Canal, 2001, etc.). Critical wunderkind Cady spits out a volume of shorter pieces that, even when they don't entirely succeed, have a good pulp resonance. The opener, "Lady With the Blind Dog," is typical in that it comes from a hard-boiled older narrator-this one a contractor/would-be architect in San Francisco-and starts off with a rather doofy story about an Oracle-like old lady whom the narrator sees dragging the same pathetic, angry little dog through the streets. The story stumbles over some groaners ("With monsters, size doesn't matter much") and into a patient exploration of growing old and watching a city age and expand around you. "Halloween 1942" is short and sweet, a Bradbury-esque recollection of childhood, appropriately tinged with gothic atmospherics in a small Indiana town. A pair of nonfiction pieces, "Science Fiction, Utopia and the Spirit" and "On Writing the Ghost Story," seem oddly out of place. They provide good enough advice and a learned reflection, but there's something in Cady's bluntness that doesn't suit the essay form. Probably the meatiest selection, "The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill," is a gem. Set after WWII in a mountainous part of Kentucky and told by a truck driver, a typical square-jawed but thoughtful Cady narrator, it's a great ghost story full of wisecracking vignettes and spooky interludes on deserted roads. Some of the tales don't pass muster, and ultimately the gathering feels like scrapings from the writer's trunk. Cady has his fans, though, who appreciate his adroit phrasing and keen sense of the spooky.

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