The Contents: Story List

Below is the contents list from Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories, giving the stories in the order they appear in the book and with the thematic section headings under which they sit. I have put the year of first publication in brackets.

Introduction: Through the Long Shadows with Rob Hood – Danel Olson

Preface

Acknowledgements

Section 1: (Haunted) Places

1.    Necropolis (1986)
2.    Remainders (2008)
3.    Kulpunya (2008)
4.    Occasional Demons (1998)
5.    The Calling (1988)
6.    Nobody’s Car (2003)
7.    Rotten Times (2001)
8.    Touched (2006)

Section 2: (Haunted) Families

9.     Grandma and the Girls (1989)
10.   Getting Rid of Mother (2008)
11.   The Shark God Covenant (2014)
12.   Nasty Little Habits (1991)
13.   A Place for the Dead (1994)
14.   Birthmark (2006)

Section 3: (Haunted) Minds

15.   Beware! The Pincushionman (2003)
16.   Rough Trade (1994)
17.   Maculate Conception (2002)
18.   Monstrous Bright Tomorrows (2007)
19.   Peripheral Movement in the Leaves Under an Orange Tree (1989)
20.   Lo Que Nos Asusta (2012)
21.   Last Remains (1988)
22.   Blurred Lines (1994)
23.   Ground Underfoot (1999)

Section 4: (Haunted) Youth

24.   Abandoned (2008)
25.   Ancestor (1988)
26.   Hard Rock Rodney (2003)
27.   That Old Black Graffiti (2000)
28.   Guard Dog (2002)

Section 5: (Haunted) Vengeance

29.   Escena de un Asesinato (2012)
30.   Dem Bones (1992)
31.   Housewarming (2002, co-written with Paul Collins)
32.   After Image (2015)
33.   Ego (2010)
34.   Openings (1993)
35.   Double Speak (2015)
36.   Dead in the Glamour of Moonlight (1995)

Section 6: (Haunted) Realities

37.   Number 7 (2002)
38.   Resonance of the Flesh (2002)
39.   Dear Mary (2007)
40.   Regolith (2004)
41.   Walking the Dead Beat (2012)
42.   Moments of Dying (2008)
43.   An Apocalyptic Horse (1989)
44.   The Whimper (2015)

Notes on the Stories

Bibliography

This is the Contents as it appears in the deluxe hardcover edition. The trade paperback version is in two volumes: Volume 1 includes sections 1 to 3, and Volume 2 includes sections 4 to 6. Each of these volumes reproduces Danel Olson’s Introduction and each contains a modified version of my Preface, plus the Notes relevant to each. The Bibliography appears in both volumes and includes publication history and any awards/citations for each story.

Note that the stories with a publication date of 2015 are the new ones written especially for this book.