The Hauntings of Hood Canal

  Copyright © 2016 by the Estate of Jack Cady

  Introduction © 2016 Nathan Ballingrud

  All rights reserved, which means that no portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of the publisher.

  This is U026, and it has an ISBN of 978-1-63023-034-0.

  This book was printed in the United States of America, and it is published by Underland Press, an imprint of Resurrection House (Puyallup, WA).

  Always before, bad men took the hint.

  Series Cover Design and Art Direction by Jennifer Tough

  Cover Layout by Darin Bradley

  Book Design by Aaron Leis

  Collection Editorial Direction by Mark Teppo

  First Underland Press edition: June 2016.

  The first edition of this novel was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2001. “Welcome Sweet Springtime” first appeared in Connecting: Twenty Prominent Authors Write About the Relationships That Shape Our Lives, published by Jeremy P. Tarcher in 1998. “Flying Home” first appeared in Western Edge in 1977, and was later collected in Tattoo, published by Circinatum in 1978. Both stories are © the Estate of Jack Cady.

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  Praise for Jack Cady

  An exceptional writer.

  —Joyce Carol Oates

  [Jack Cady is] a lasting voice in modern American literature.

  —Atlanta Constitution

  Jack Cady’s knack for golden sentences is an alchemy any other writer has to admire.

  —Ivan Doig

  Jack Cady is above all, a writer of great, unmistakable integrity and profound feeling. He never fakes it or coasts, and behind every one of his sentences is an emotional freight that bends it both outward, toward the reader, and inward, back to the source.

  —Peter Straub

  A writer whose words reverberate with human insight.

  —Publishers Weekly

  His structural control and the laconic richness of his style establish Cady in the front ranks of contemporary writers.

  —Library Journal

  When Cady settles into yarn-spinning, his stories have the humor and comfortable mastery of Faulkner or Steinbeck.

  —National Review

  The Cady Collection

  NOVELS

  The Hauntings of Hood Canal

  Inagehi

  The Jonah Watch

  McDowell’s Ghost

  The Man Who Could Make Things Vanish

  The Off Season

  Singleton

  Street

  Dark Dreaming [with Carol Orlock, as Pat Franklin]

  Embrace of the Wolf [with Carol Orlock, as Pat Franklin]

  OTHER WRITINGS

  Phantoms

  Fathoms

  Ephemera

  The American Writer