John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. His name is immortalised in the term "Bangsian Fantasy" - fantasy set in the afterlife, of which Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series is a direct descendent.
Check out seven short stories by this author specially selected by the critic August Nemo:
- The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall
- The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop
- A Midnight Visitor
- The Speck On The Lens
- A Quicksilver Cassandra
- The Ghost Club
- A Psychical Prank