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While Edith Nesbit's mainstream fiction has often been revived, her tales of terror - apart from one or two anthologized pieces - have fallen into unwarranted neglect.
In the context of her life and marriage to the priapic Hubert Bland, these powerfully told tales, with their frequent sexual overtones, reflect deep-seated fears and anxieties - in particular, childhood memories of seeing mummified corpses in a Bordeaux church and a lifelong dread of being buried alive.
But these are more than attempts at personal exorcism. Edith Nesbit was a natural storyteller and her gifts are shown to the full in this collection, which will do much to re-establish her as one of the most accomplished and entertaining ghost-story writers of the past hundred years.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Nesbit, E.
- ISBN: 9780008249014
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.70 x 0.90
- Number Of Pages: 320
- Publication Year: 2018
Language:
English