A Natural History of Hell

Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A couple are invited over to a neighbor's daughter's exorcism. A country witch with a sea-captain's head in a glass globe intercedes on behalf of abused and abandoned children. In July of 1915, in Hardin County, Ohio, a boy sees ghosts. Explore contemporary natural history in a baker's dozen of exhilarating visions. Contains: -The Blameless -Word Doll -The Angel Seems -Mount Chary Galore -A Natural History of Autumn -Blood Drive -A Terror Rocket Ship to Hell -The Fairy Enterprise -The Last Triangle -Spirits of Salt: A Tale of the Coral Heart The Thyme Fiend -The Prelate's Commission

Jeffrey Ford (1955- ) Jeffrey Ford is the author of a number of story collections and novels, including the Edgar® Award-winning The Girl in the Glass and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning The Shadow Year. A former professor of writing and early American literature, Ford now writes full-time in Ohio, where he lives with his wife.