Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories
A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; a faithful butler continues to serve his master despite being shot dead days ago; the last words of a dying man haunt the airwaves, only to return via telegram to reveal his murderer.
From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early 20th century. Waiting within are malevolent spirits eager to possess the living and mysterious spectral guardians – a diverse host of phantoms exhumed from the rare pages of literary magazines and newspaper serials to thrill once more.
Contents
Introduction
1. On the Embankment (1919) by Hugh E. Wright
2. The Mystery of the Gables (1908) by Elsie Norris
3. The Missing Word (1907) by Austin Philips
4. Phantom Death (1900) by Charles H. Mansfield and Walter E. Mansfield
5. The Wraith of the Rapier (1911) by Firth Scott
6. The Soul of Maddalina Tonelli (1909) by James Barr
7. Haunted! (1910) by Jack Edwards
8. Our Strange Traveller (1911) by Percy James Brebner
9. A Regent of Love Rhymes (1905) by C. Ranger Gull
10. Amid the Trees (1911) by Francis Xavier
11. The River's Edge (1912) by Mary Schultze
12. A Futile Ghost (1899) by Mary Reynolds
13. Ghosts (1914) by Lumley Deakin
14. Kearney (1917) by Elizabeth G. Jordan
15. When Spirits Steal (1920) by Philippa Forest
16. The House of the Black Evil (1929) by Eric Purves
17. The Woman in the Veil (1928) by E. F. Benson
18. The Treasure of the Tombs (1921) by F. Britten Austin
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Mike Ashley
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than 100 books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand (British Library, 2016), Out of This World, a brief illustrated history of science fiction (British Library, 2011), and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950 (British Library, 2005). Most recently he is the author of a multi-volume history of science fiction magazines, published by Liverpool University Press.
British Library Tales of the Weird
The British Library Tales of the Weird series revives and unearths classic strange fiction from the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the form of novels, single-author collections and thematic anthologies, complete with new introductions and fascinating notes by expert editors.
British Library Tales of the Weird consists of sixty-three books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
