Description
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.
About the Author
Henry Bartholomew specialises in nineteenth- and early twentieth century supernatural fiction and has taught at the University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth. He is the editor of Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (British Library Press, 2021) and has published work in The Palgrave Handbook to the Vampire and the journal Open Philosophy.
Reviews
'An unmissable, urgent and era-defining work. ' - Gingernuts of Horror, on Women's Weird
'Terrifically enjoyable, surreal' - The Washington Post, on Women's Weird 2
'Both subtle and sudden' - Library Journal, on From the Abyss
'A distinctive, suspenseful power to haunt' - Brixton Review of Books, on The Villa and The Vortex
Book Information
ISBN 9781912766765
Author Henry Bartholomew
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Handheld Press
Publisher Handheld Press
Series Handheld Weirds
