Ghosts and Grinning Shadows: Two Witch Stories

by Helen Adam

Book by Adam, Helen

Genres: Fiction, Horror, Gothic

98 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Helen Douglas Adam was a Scottish journalist and author. After moving to London, she worked as a journalist for the Weekly Scotsman. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was stranded in Connecticut, where she had been attending a wedding. She later moved to San Francisco, where she became a muse to the beat generation of the 1950s and 60s.

Her dark, timeless tales of doomed love and emotional revenge are hauntingly crafted into traditional ballad forms. Thanks to publication in magazines and anthologies and personal readings at universities, theatres and poetry centres, she had an enthusiastic following in the USA. Her Selected Poems and Ballads were published in 1974.

Reviews

[Mitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helen Adam tells her spooky stories in prose this time, and these stories are fantastic! The ultimate in gothic story-telling, One wonders if there were more such stories Helen never published. Great fireside ghost story reading aloud stuff.