Ellen Datlow consistently puts together first-rate anthologies, and this is no exception. These are all ghost stories, and they are all meant to provoke fear and unease (no friendly ghosts here).

Table of Contents:
Jeffrey Ford: The Trentino Kid
Tanith Lee: The Ghost of the Clock
Terry Dowling: One Thing About the Night
Mike O'Driscoll: The Silence of the Falling Stars
Gahan Wilson: The Dead Ghost
Jack Cady: Seven Sisters
Joyce Carol Oates: Subway
Stephen Gallagher: Doctor Hood
Daniel Abraham: An Amicable Divorce
Ramsey Campbell: Feeling Remains
Sharyn McCrumb: The Gallows Necklace
Charles L. Grant: Brownie, and Me
Kathe Koja: Velocity
Lucious Shepard: Limbo
Kelly Link: The Hortlak
Glen Hirshberg: Dancing Men

I am offering this as a Halloween bookring!

UPDATE: April 2005
This book is still missing. See last journal entries.

HALLOWEEN BOOKRING !
Some brief guidelines, please: When you receive the book, and again when you send it out, make a journal entry so we can track its progress. (Of course, please also tell us what you thought of it!) Check here for the current mailing order and send a PM to the next person in line for their address. If you can't get hold of them, let me know. There is no rush on this, all I ask is that you try to read it in a timely fashion. I hope you all enjoy the book!

Mailing order:
hathyia (Malaysia)- current reader (as of January 2004).
Hexa (London, UK)
mellion108 (MI)
jamieh2003 (WV)
weeblet (VA) - US only
tish2002 (MO) - US only
kymberlie (TX) - US only
ladyofunicorns (NM)
WickedWordz (FL)
LaurieS (NH)
- back to me

The journey begins! Mailed to hathyia today.

I am sad to report that this book seems to be lost in the mail, somewhere between the US and Malaysia. I'm quite frustrated, as this was a brand-new hardcover (and not cheap). Such are the risks, I suppose.

Anyway, my apologies to all of you who were looking forward to reading it.

Well it seems the book arrived safetly ....but it took like 3 months to get here....

UPDATE:
After numerous exchanges with Hathyia and a cryptic account of The Dark being held hostage by the Malaysian post, I am still waiting for this book to come home. The latest story (8/15/05) is that she sent it out but it mysteriously got returned to her. She has now stopped responding to my PMs again.


Update, 2/8/06
I have finally just gone ahead and purchased a second copy of this book. (Fortunately I found a much cheaper copy at bookcloseouts.com!) I will be sharing it with a select few BCers.

It seems that this book has a history of postal problems. Perhaps it hides in THE DARK like the title suggests.

The Lost Book Island welcomes this book to our shores even though we realize this book may never come out of the darkest corner of the closet in its room. This is a shy book indeed. Nevertheless, it is journal entries that can bring it into the light. Journal entries that will tell us where this book was seen last and help us to plot future journies. Destined to be on a bookring where it can safely get back home to the owner that loves and cherishes it one can only imagine the frustration when it gets lost not just for days or weeks but what can now be called months and years. We can only hope that a new journal entry alert will come very soon.