New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Wordsworth
07 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Wordsworth
APRIL-JUNE 07
D K Broster
Couching at the Door (Mystery & Supernatural)
Pbk published May 2007 by Wordsworth at £2.99
ISBN: 1840226072
Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - 'The Second of September 1792' is a fine example - and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist. Sometimes - as in "The Window" or "The Pestering", or "All Soul's Day" - these are what we might call 'explainable' ghost stories: apparitions or hauntings whose origin is to be found in some violent or unjust action in the past. Other stories, "Couching at the Door" and "From the Abyss", have little or no explanation, even in supernatural terms. Add to these an elegant reworking of the "Persephone" myth, "The Taste of Pomegranates", the downright bloodthirsty "Clairvoyance", and the psychological studies, "The Promised Land" and "The Pavement" which so well merit the heading "Madness and Obsession", and you have a collection to disturb and unsettle the strongest nerves.
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H.P. Lovecraft
The Loved Dead: Collected Short Stories
Pbk published May 2007 by Wordsworth at £2.99
ISBN: 1840226226
"I tried to turn away, but the shadows and the sounds and the stench were everywhere. Then I remembered something I used to do in half-conscious nightmares as a boy, and began to repeat to myself, 'This is a dream! This is a dream!' But it was of no use..."
This collection brings together for the first time some of H P Lovecraft's more obscure works of weird fiction. Within these pages, you will find a serial ghost-written for the famous showman Harry Houdini, a rare foray into science fiction and several fantastic tales from the Cthulhu Mythos. "The Loved Dead and Other Stories" is the book for every true Lovecraft aficionado.
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