Ghost Dance
core novel 1994 Ghost World
Record
| First published | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.30 (23 ratings, collected 2026-10-23) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780374325374 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
The young witch Shingebiss pleads with the ancient shaman, her grandmother, to save the land. After her grandmother's death she travels to the Imperial City to spell the Czar and save the Northlands, which his avarice and suspicion are destroying. But the Czar is mad, his mind like a broken mirror, and when Shingebiss arrives at court with her true magic he takes her for an angel sent to him by God, the Czar's Black Angel. His deceitful English wizard, Master Jenkins, who has promised him a potion of immortality, is jealous of her, and tells the Czar that the most important ingredient of the elixir is the blood of an angel. Narrated, like the others, by a mystical cat, the third Ghost World book.
Where it sits
- Universe: Ghost World
- Series: Ghost World core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Susan Price
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the first American edition (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); first published by Faber in 1994.
- From the series record (Ghost World): Susan Price's fairy tales of a frozen Czardom of witches and shamans.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Ghost World: position 3 of 4: previous Ghost Song (1992) · next Ghost Spell (2017)
- Internal chronology, within Ghost World: position 3 of 3: previous Ghost Song (1992)
Sources
- Risingshadow (series listing)
- Wikipedia (Susan Price)
- Publishers Weekly (review with edition details)
- Susan Price (author's edition description, via FictionDB)
- The Locus Index to Science Fiction
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