Watchers at the Strait Gate

The tales in this volume have retributive ghosts, malign magicians, blind angels, beneficent phantoms, conjuring witches, demonic possession, creatures of the twilight, divided selves. Among the manifestations, maleficent and otherwise, in Watchers at the Strait Gate, the reader will encounter all the refinements and graces of classic supernatural fiction: a masterly literary style, deftness in handling atmospheric effects, a broad background in psychology and metaphysics, a mature attitude toward life, and, above all, a narrative ability that few fantasists aside from Dr. Kirk possess. In these allegories of the diabolical and the divine, the reader once again must confront the age-old reality of evil, the darkness or the light in souls, the essential mystery of human existence.

Contents:
The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost
The Surly Sullen Bell
The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion
Uncle Isaiah
The Reflex-Man in Whinnymuir Close
What Shadows We Pursue
Lex Talionis
Fate’s Purse
An Encounter by Mortsone Pond
Watchers at the Strait Gate