DESCRIPTION: Ghosts, Girls, & Other Phantasms is a comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin's solo short fiction, containing most of the stories from his earlier collection
The Last Ghost and Other Stories. (The "Angel in Black" stories have been broken out into their own volume.) It includes some of his best-known stories, such as the Nebula Award finalist story "The Last Ghost" and the oft-anthologized "Sweet Dreams, Melissa." The complete Table of Contents lists:
- Sweet Dreams, Melissa
- The Girls on USSF 193
- Nice Place to Visit
- When There's No Man Around
- Xenophobe
- Grim Fairy Tale
- Of Love, Free Will, and Gray Squirrels on a Summer Evening
- Stubborn
- But As A Soldier, For His Country
- The World Where Wishes Worked
- Apollyon Ex Machina
- Prelude to a Symphony of Unborn Shouts
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young God
- The Last Ghost
- Haunted Houses
The stories in this book run the gamut from humor to pathos, and demonstrate the evolution of a prolific writer in the speculative fiction field. Enjoy!