Green Tea
And Other Weird Stories
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Publication
2020 - Oxford University Press
Language
English
Word Count
136,000 words, Guess
Page Count
544 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780198835882
- ISBN-100198835884
- Library of Congress Control Number2020009613
- OCLC Control Number1119458374
- Better World Books9780198835882
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29464532M
Classifications
- LCCPR4879.L7A6 2020
- LCCPR4879.L7 A6 2020
Description
"Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction. While a number of his sensation and mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter forms that he truly excelled and most showed himself an innovator in the field of uncanny fiction. Tales such as Carmilla and Green Tea prompted M. R. James to remark, 'he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer'. This landmark critical edition includes the original versions of the stories later collected in the superb In a Glass Darkly, along with equally chilling tales spanning the length of Le Fanu's career, from 'Schalken the Painter', a pioneering story of the walking dead, to 'Laura Silver Bell', a haunting exploration of the dark side of fairy lore. Aaron Worth's introduction discusses the paranoid, claustrophobic world of Le Fanu's fiction, placing the stories both the context of the author's long career and in the pantheon of writers of the uncanny"--
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- Green Tea: And Other Weird Stories
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