[[nid:4845]]Each of the stories is engaging and unique: a woman about to marry Mr. Right is visited by the spirit of his first wife; a secretary on a diet begins to see obese people everywhere she looks; a self-conscious poet is shadowed by her intrusive doppelgänger; and a capricious, malevolent spirit seems to have inhabited an acquisitive matron’s prized piece of furniture.

It’s fun to imagine the author writing this collection:  a Cornell professor musing on the social intercourse of ghosts and spectral influences—not the usual fare for the halls of high academia!