Women and Ghosts Tales / Alison Lurie

In nine spooky stories, Alison Lurie writes about women haunted by ghosts, both literal and figurative: a woman about to marry Mr. Right is haunted by the ghost of his first wife; a dead fiancé haunts a foreign service officer every time she has an intimate moment with another man; the ghost of a girl in a Halloween costume unsettles the perfect housewife. A secretary on a diet begins to see obese people everywhere; a confident poet is shadowed by her meddlesome doppelganger; and a capricious, malevolent ghost seems to have inhabited the valuable furniture of a greedy matron. In these nine delightfully strange and beautifully told stories, Alison Lurie is at her best.