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Ghosts of Yesterday is a stunning new collection by multiple-award-winning author Jack Cady The Off Season, The Haunting of Hood Canal. Cady captures the sights and emotions of America, from the Pacific Northwest ("Jeremiah"), to the streets of San Francisco ("The Lady With the Blind Dog"), to the Midwest-heartland ("Halloween 1942"), along the roads and highways in between ("The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill"), and back into the history of the American Southeast ("The Time That Time Forgot").

The stories that make up Ghosts of Yesterday are detailed and realistic portraits of the world that, despite (and perhaps because) of their authenticity, manage to convey a sense of wonder and fantastic, where anything is possible.

The characters and places that Cady brings to life demonstrate clearly why he is one of the most versatile and respected writers today... His stories will move you, and change the way you look at the world.

Contents:

• The Lady With the Blind Dog
• Jeremiah
• Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Spirit
• Halloween 1942
• On Writing the Ghost Story
• The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill
• Weird Row
• Daddy Dearest
• Jacket Copy
• Griffin
• Isreal
• The Time that Time Forgot

When Harriette inherits a mountain set among the Cherokee of North Carolina, she also inherits the mystery of her father's death.

In a rustic town in Washington State, a man's death upsets the quiet equilibrium of small-town life. A well-intentioned blacksmith performs a civic duty for the town, ridding it of a pernicious evil that has taken up residence along the canal, but the death of the predator allows a more ancient evil into the waters. The townsfolk find themselves caught a vortex of uncertainty and moral ambiguity as the investigators start to uncover hidden secrets long thought buried...

From the author the Tulsa World says "has patented a hard-edged folksy narrative that conceals within its intricate voice the imminence of the supernatural" comes a tale of the dark side of the quintessential American small town.

This is a collection of short stories by the Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning author Jack Cady.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Jack Cady's Ghosts - (1998) - essay by Peter S. Beagle
• Preface (The Night We Buried Road Dog) - (1998) - essay
• The Night We Buried Road Dog - (1993) - novella
• The Best Left Neglected Library of Dry Facts - (1994) - shortstory
• Our Ground and Every Fragrant Tree is Shaded - (1994) - shortstory
• A Sailor's Pay - (1991) - shortstory
• The Bride: A Romance - (1996) - shortstory
• Kilroy Was Here - (1996) - novella

Stoker and Nebula Award winning and Hugo, Locus and Wold Fantasy Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1993. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994), Nebula Awards 29 (1995), edited by Pamela Sargent and The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners (2012) edited by Joe R. Lansdale. It is included in the collection The Night We Buried Road Dog (1998).

There is a curse on Point Vestal. Time moves differently in this sleepy Northwestern coastal town, where the ghosts of the past roam the streets as readily as the living inhabitants. It's still the late 19th century, and underneath the quaint touristy allure of the commingling of the past and present is a lurking darkness. August Starling, a decadent (and dead) crime baron, has a plan for Point Vestal because the magical nature of the town is a haven for sinners fleeing judgment for their crimes. And the only residents who can stop him are newcomers to town: a defrocked Episcopalian priest and a talking cat, who is fluent in seven languages.

Table of Contents:

• The Sons of Noah - (1991) - short story
• Now We Are Fifty - (1978) - short story
• Resurrection - (1990) - short story
• Tinker - (1992) - short story
• The Patriarch - (1986) - short story
• The Curious Candy Store - (1990) - short story
• By Reason of Darkness - (1988) - novella

Years earlier, John Tracker fled the insanity of his family and their house, a centuries-old monstrosity that his grandfather Theophilus rigged full of hallucinatory tricks and vicious death traps designed to capture the Devil. Now middle-aged, John receives word that the place is to be demolished to make way for a freeway, and he decides to revisit it with his girlfriend Amy Griffith before its destruction. But when a blizzard traps them inside the house, they will be forced to contend with the dangers hidden within: strange time-shifts, murderous traps, and something evil that stalks the halls in the form of John's grandmother Vera. As the terror mounts, John and Amy will make the horrifying discovery that Theophilus's mad ambition to trap the Devil may have succeeded only too well...