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The Fire Doll: Stories Paperback - 2017

by James Ulmer


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  • Title The Fire Doll: Stories
  • Author James Ulmer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas Review Press, Huntsville
  • Date 2017
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781680031270 / 1680031279
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Ghost stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017000902
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

JAMES ULMER's collection of ghost stories, The Secret Life, was published by Halcyon Press in 2012. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, The North American Review, The Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, New Letters, The Texas Review and elsewhere. Ulmer was Writer-in-Residence at Houston Baptist University for many years and is currently Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Southern Arkansas University.

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Texas Review Press, 2017. Trade Paperback. A fine paperback copy. The stories in The Fire Doll investigate the notion that our experience can be richer, more inclusive, and sometimes more unsettling than the life prescribed by the normal daylight sense of reality. American writing has often been engaged with elements of mystery and the uncanny, and the American Dream has always had its corresponding nightmare. These stories feature haunted landscapes, places where violence and tragedy have left their marks: a man is subsumed by his vision of falling pine straw, a camera captures something the eye alone can't perceive, and a dead girl leads an unsuspecting boy to a killer's burial ground. In the title story, a Houston homicide detective is haunted, literally and figuratively, by the death of his partner. In order to redeem himself, he must hunt down her killer and confront his own complicity in her death. Written in the tradition of dark American masters like Hawthorne and Henry James, the tales in… Read More
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