Wright's 'On The Embankment' an enjoyably creepy, if a tad moralistic, story of a ghostly tramp which is followed by an unusually haunted house in 'Mystery of the Gables' that gives author Elsie Norris what feels like a very modern sensibility. It has to be said upfront that there are no unrecognised classics of the genre here but there are very few stinkers, a couple of pretty nifty ones and a host of readable ones. This particular collection celebrates the forgotten and the unloved as anthologist supreme Mike Ashley here presents eighteen previously unreprinted tales from the golden age of ghostly fiction (1890 - 1920) including a previously lost story by E.F. James alongside less well known writers like Charlotte Riddell. Over the last couple of months the British Library has begun publishing a veritable treasure trove of strange macabre and outre fiction from it's vaults with collections featuring the work of such luminaries as Walter de la Mare and M.R.
Of phantoms exhumed from the rare pages of literary magazines and To possess the living and mysterious spectral guardians-a diverse host Waiting within are malevolent spirits eager The vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating theīest works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fictionįrom the early 20th century. Man haunts the airwaves, seeking to reveal his murderer a treasure huntĭisturbs an ancient presence in the silence of a lost tomb.
Painting to pursue a bitter vengeance the last transmission of a dying
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