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I became aware of Kevin Brockmeier’s work back in 2008 when Robert Shearman, in an in­terview with Eric Forbes, included Brockmeier in a list of writers “who play with the short story, squeeze as much out of it as they can.” Sadly, I’ve only now gotten around to reading Brock­meier’s short fiction, picking up his latest col­lection The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. The book is the literary equivalent of a concept album, gathering together 100 ghostly vignettes and then breaking them up into 11 categories including, “Ghosts and Memory”, “Ghosts and Nature”, “Ghosts and Specula­tion”, and “Ghosts and Love and Friendship”. There’s even a Concordance at the back of the collection that provides an intricate spiderweb of links between each vignette. Given the length of these stories – none longer than five hundred words – and the singular nature of the topic, if I weren’t reviewing

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