Questionable Shapes (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

At the New York City gentlemen’s club known as the Turkish Room, members gathered to tell stories of psychic phenomena and the supernatural. This 1903 departure for the "Dean of American Realism” includes three novellas: "His Apparition,” "The Angel of the Lord,” and "Though One Rose from the Dead.”

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American novelist and critic.  He edited the Atlantic Monthly from 1871-1881, where he championed literary realism and advanced the careers of such important American writers as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Henry James.  His best known novel is The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885).