Search Worlds Without End

Edited, introduced and illustrated by Audrey Niffenegger

Haunted houses, spectral chills, and of course, the odd cat...

In this volume, Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, has brought together her selection of the very creepiest, weirdest and wittiest ghost stories around.

Scare yourself silly with old favourites by Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. Entertain the unnerving with tales from Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link and Audrey Niffenegger herself. And as bedtime nears, allay your fears with funny new writing from Amy Giacalone and the classic wit of Saki.

When the nights draw in and the fire burns low, enjoy the eeriness, the dread and the comedy of all things ghostly.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Black Cat - short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Secret Life, with Cats - short story by Audrey Niffenegger
• Pomegranate Seed - short story by Edith Wharton
• The Beckoning Fair One - short story by Oliver Onions
• The Mezzotint - short story by M. R. James
• Honeysuckle Cottage - short story by P. G. Wodehouse
• Click-Clack the Rattlebag - short story by Neil Gaiman
• They - short story by Rudyard Kipling
• Playmates - short story by A. M. Burrage
• The July Ghost - short story by A. S. Byatt
• Laura - short story by Saki
• The Open Window - short story by Saki
• The Specialist's Hat - short story by Kelly Link
• Tiny Ghosts - short story by Amy Giacalone
• The Pink House - short story by Rebecca Curtis
• August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains - short story by Ray Bradbury
• Acknowledgements
• Reading Group Guide

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.