A Manhattan Ghost Story

Do you see ghosts?

Photographer Abner Cray arrives in Manhattan to begin work on an illustrated book of the city. However he finds that Art, the owner of the flat he is staying in, has gone missing, leaving behind a beguiling and sensuous young lady called Phyllis Pellaprat, to whom he’s instantly attracted. Soon Abner is deeply involved with Phyllis and is wholly unprepared for the revelation that Art is actually wanted for her murder – an event that took place some time earlier. When Phyllis disappears, Abner wanders the streets, and he sees what appear to be disaffected and strangly-acting people everywhere – hailing taxis, selling puppies on street corners, pushing baby carriages, and he starts to suspect …

Telos Publishing is proud to reissue this classic novel from acclaimed author T M Wright; a hypnotic, spooky page-turner that is by turns a terrifying slide into madness and an effective love story.

‘T M Wright is a rare and blazing talent.’ – Stephen King

‘Wright convincingly proves that he understands, as few do, how to give
a scare without spilling blood all over the page.’ – Publishers Weekly

‘T M Wright is the best ghost story writer alive today.’ – American Fantasy Magazine

280pp. A5-format paperback novel.
ISBN 1-84583-048-2
Published 21 September 2006

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

T M Wright‘s first publication was a non-fiction study of unidentified flying objects, entitled The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Flying Saucers in 1968. A Manhattan Ghost Story, his seventh novel, was optioned to be filmed in the 1980s. A screenplay was written by Ronald Bass for which he was paid two million US dollars, a record-breaking amount for an adaptation of a novel to the screen. The option was taken over by Robert Lawrence Productions in 1991, and then exercised in 1993. Many actors and directors have been attached to the project over the years including Wayne Wang, Julia Roberts, and Sharon Stone (who received five million US dollars because of her pay or play contract). As of 2015, the film is still in development at Touchstone Pictures.

Wright’s fiction has appeared in several magazines including Twilight Zone Magazine, PostScripts, Cemetery Dance, Flesh and Blood Magazine, UpState, and Brutarian.

Wright was also an artist and painted book covers and illustrations for magazines including Brutarian. He did the artwork for his own book covers of two foreign editions of Cold House (German and Italian language editions), The Eyes of the Carp from Cemetery Dance Publications in 2005, Blue Canoe from PS Publishing, Sleepeasy (from Leisure Books), and his collection Bone Soup from Cemetery Dance Publications.

Wright died on 31 October 2015.