![]() With seven extra newly-discovered stories now appearing for the first time in paperback, this revised edition includes an introduction by Hugh Lamb exploring the life of the woman behind these tales and the events and experiences that contributed to her fascination with the macabre. All but forgotten for almost a hundred years until In the Dark was first published 30 years ago, this collection finally restored Nesbit's reputation as a one of the most accomplished and entertaining ghost-story writers of the Victorian age. Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked, in her own words, 'nights and nights of anguish and horror, long years of bitterest fear and dread', Nesbit was inspired to pen terrifying stories of a twilight world where the dead walked the earth. introduction by Hugh Lamb exploring the life of the woman behind these tales and the events and. ![]() But beyond her beloved children's stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural. Collects twelve stories by Frederick Cowles, Barry Pain, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes, E. Edith Nesbit's natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children's author. Hugh Lamb is a collector with a mission: to curate forgotten short stories from the Victorian era, specifically those with a mind to terrify their readers. : Forgotten Tales Of Terror: Very uncommon small-sized hardbound issue, a bind-up in boards of the paperback sheets, produced for the British library market (there was a simultaneous paperback edition). ![]()
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