John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. His name is immortalised in the term “Bangsian Fantasy” — fantasy set in the afterlife, of which Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series is a direct descendent.
Check out seven short stories by this author specially selected by the critic August Nemo:
— The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall
— The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop
— A Midnight Visitor
— The Speck On The Lens
— A Quicksilver Cassandra
— The Ghost Club
— A Psychical Prank