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