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I aim to startle as well as please, " Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhaps may not even be aware of being a ghost at all. One in fact is the ghost of a man who isn't even dead yet. Another takes the bus home from work, ...

In four short works of contemporary fiction that probe metaphysical truths, a charismatic teacher has a devastating impact on her students, young women struggle for survival in a post-war London hostel, a woman searches for her own death, and a man is implicated in his wife's terrorist activities.

Was ist aus Lucky Lucan geworden, dem Lord, der 1974 versehentlich die Nanny seiner Kinder umbrachte, in der Meinung, sie sei seine Frau? Muriel Spark sichtet ihn 25 Jahre nach der Tat in Paris, wo er sich bei Frau Dr. Wolf in Behandlung befindet - einer Psychiaterin mit einer ganz eigenen Methode.