- Publisher: Handheld
- Year: 2023
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 244pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 215x134mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781912766765
- Product code: 541101
The Living Stone
Stories of Uncanny Sculpture, 1858–1943
Ed. Henry Bartholomew New Paperback
Postscript summary
Alongside work by HP Lovecraft and Edith Wharton this anthology of 17 short stories features examples by forgotten masters of the supernatural. Sharing the notion that stone ‘can become a vessel for all manner of hopes, fears, terrors and desires’ they include the tale of a marble statue with a horrifying story and an Egyptian statuette of a cat that seems a conduit for evil.
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Handheld Press presents a fearful anthology of forgotten stories to persuade you that a stone hand has been placed on your shoulder when you least expect it, or that something heavy is scraping its way up the stairs. Well-known authors of the uncanny such as Eleanor Scott, Edith Wharton, H P Lovecraft and Arthur Machen are showcased with long-forgotten masters and mistresses of supernatural short stories to frighten the heart into some loud thumpings.
Authors include:
Sabine Baring-Gould, E F Benson, Nellie K Blissett, Bernard Capes, James Causey, Robert W Chambers, N Dennett, W W Fenn, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow, Oliver Onions, E R Punshon, Eleanor Scott, Clark Ashton Smith, and Edith Wharton.
Henry Bartholomew, editor of our Algernon Blackwood anthology, The Unknown (March 2023), has curated this selection and written the Introduction. The Living Stone will be the ninth of the Handheld Weirds: landmark anthologies to redefine the birth of Weird fiction.
Authors include:
Sabine Baring-Gould, E F Benson, Nellie K Blissett, Bernard Capes, James Causey, Robert W Chambers, N Dennett, W W Fenn, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow, Oliver Onions, E R Punshon, Eleanor Scott, Clark Ashton Smith, and Edith Wharton.
Henry Bartholomew, editor of our Algernon Blackwood anthology, The Unknown (March 2023), has curated this selection and written the Introduction. The Living Stone will be the ninth of the Handheld Weirds: landmark anthologies to redefine the birth of Weird fiction.
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Alongside work by HP Lovecraft and Edith Wharton this anthology of 17 short stories features examples by forgotten masters of the supernatural. Sharing the notion that stone ‘can become a vessel for all manner of hopes, fears, terrors and desires’ they include the tale of a marble statue with a horrifying story and an Egyptian statuette of a cat that seems a conduit for evil.
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