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A first limited edition hardback (300 copies only). Beautiful boards. UNREAD.
SYNOPSIS: “Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) is principally remembered for her books for younger readers, among them Five Children and It and The Railway Children, all of which have been republished and represented to subsequent generations through a reassuring lens of Edwardian nostalgia.
However, there was a dark side to her imagination, and in this volume Tartarus has collected twenty-three short stories in which she explored the more macabre and sometimes downright horrific side of her imagination. Her life-long fascination for ghosts and spectres appears to have been a direct result of her own childhood experiences, and these are discussed in a new Introduction to this volume of her collected Dark Tales.
CONTENTS: Introduction, *A Strange Experience, *Man-Size in Marble, *John Charrington’s Wedding, *The Ebony Frame, *The Mass for the Dead, *Uncle Abraham’s Romance, *The Mystery of the Semi-detached, *From the Dead, *Hurst of Hurstcote, *The Letter in Brown Ink, *The Haunted Inheritance, *The Power of Darkness, *The Portent of the Shadow, *The House of Silence, *The Head, *The Third Drug, *The Five Senses, *Number 17, *In the Dark, *The Violet Car,*‘The Haunted House, *The Pavilion, *The Detective, Publication history.”
Packed weight 1080gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH
