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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be aware that this book includes a big amount of stories that appear for the first time in digital print.

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A Novel in Dialogue

The Maiden's Progress

THE hard, pungent, scintillating cleverness that marked Miss Hunt's earlier method has been retained through the immeasurable advance of her later work. And this diamond sparkle, taken into conjunction with the high seriousness and insistent pathos that found so fine an expression in White Rose of Weary Leaf, lifts the cleverness at times into something not unlike genius. The old eternal Weltschmerz known to Solomon, is known, we should imagine, most abundantly to Miss Hunt. But in her case it only reaches the reader after being absorbed through an intensely modern intelligence. There is nothing defiant, by the way, about Miss Hunt's modernity: her metaphors and her epigrams, though the newest of the new, come to her naturally -- because she happens to have that sort of up-todate mind, and to think in that sort of up-to-date language, not to say slang. All this applies pre-eminently to Tales of the Uneasy, which have, in addition, a haunting value of their own. The title, by the way, is singularly felicitous. "Uneasy" is exactly the right word to apply both to the experiences they relate and the effect they have on the reader. They are not exactly ghost stories -- or at least they bear very little relation to the old turnip-head ghost of Christmas fiction, but they are things to make the flesh creep nevertheless. The mise en scene is more often than not normal, even commonplace. Then a touch of uneasiness troubles the atmosphere, deepening by almost imperceptible degrees to actual horror. Once begun, no story of them all can be left unread, and for our sins, in the case, for instance, of that most piteous and most moving tale of helpless infancy, "The Barometer," cannot be forgotten. All the plots -- save those in which the more realistic details are candidly taken from certain newspaper reports, are fresh and unhackneyed, if such words can be applied to things so bitter-sweet, ' so smarting, so dipped in the knowledge of both worlds as these. "The Telegram" is the title of the first one. It tells how a flirt, having made use of a man's devotion for many years, at length decides to marry him, with the idea that his companionship will be preferable to that of the inevitable paid companion. But, unfortunately, she invites to dinner, and makes her proposal to, a man whom an after-comparison of dates proves to have been a corpse at the time. There is nothing to suggest the supernatural during the course of that formal t£te-a-t£te dinner-party, but the reader feels its uncanniness in his bones. Equally creepy is "The Prayer," where, in answer to a wife's passionate peremptory prayer to the Almighty, her husband is given back to her from the dead. He was an uncomfortable yoke-fellow, and the sense not only of death and the grave but of a thousand sepulchres seems to have got into that particular story. But above and beyond all the rest is "The Operation," which is one of the weirdest and most powerful short stories we ever remember to have read. We will not disclose the plot, since its force and poignancy all lie in the telling. But it should become in its way a little classic. --The Outlook, Vol.27

Tales of the Uneasy

The Maiden's Progress is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This early work by Violet Hunt was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Prayer' is a short story by the author of 'A Hard Woman'. Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham, England. Hunt covered several literary forms, including short stories, novels, memoirs, and biographies. Her first published work was her novel 'The Maiden's Progress' (1894) which fell into the New Woman genre and represented her ideals as an active feminist. These political views led to her founding the Women Writer's Suffrage League in 1908. Feminism however, was by no means her only subject matter, with works like 'Tales of the Uneasy' (1911) being a collection of supernatural fiction short stories. Although Hunt produced many works, her reputation is as much for the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill as it is for her writing. She would entertain guests such as Rebecca West, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and other important writers of the time.

The Prayer

Excerpt from The Maiden's Progress a Novel in Dialogue A girl's bedroom in a house in Queen's Gate. Mary elizabeth maskelyne, afterwards known as moderna, eighteen, lying on the bed in a white peignoir. Enter on tiptoe her sisters verona and peggy, aged seventeen and fifteen respectively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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