Visions & Apparitions

'Visions & Apparitions' brings together in English the greater part of Ladislav Klíma's ghost stories. Klíma employed the horror genre as a way to explore his subjectivist philosophy, and by all accounts he enjoyed writing them to pass the time. At times playful and lyrical, if not outright comical, the stories were written at various stages, the last text, ostensibly a one-act play about the undead, penned (or dictated) in the final months of his life. As a whole, they reflect Klíma's lifelong