John Kendrick Bangs 1 hr 43 min read

Between midnight and four each morning, an old typewriter in the corner of the narrator's library clacks away by itself, its keys worked by unseen hands, transcribing dispatches from Hades.

John Kendrick Bangs's 1899 book is a witty fantasy and social satire in his beloved 'Associated Shades' vein. Droll, clever, charming. Read it for genial Bangsian whimsy, reports on the doings of the afterlife, tapped out by a ghostly correspondent, in a humorous fantasy from a favorite American humorist.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 43 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).