John Kendrick Bangs

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. His name is immortalised in the term "Bangsian Fantasy" - fantasy set in the afterlife, of which Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series is a direct descendent.

Check out seven short stories by this author specially selected by the critic August Nemo:

• The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall
• The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop
• A Midnight Visitor
• The Speck On The Lens
• A Quicksilver Cassandra
• The Ghost Club
• A Psychical Prank