French gathers stories in which the boundary between the living and the dead grows thin: Poe’s Ligeia, a Highland tale of second sight, apparitions, returning spirits, a ghostly harpsichord at Bruges and many more by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers. His preface argues that the supernatural has haunted literature since the Greek tragedians and is enjoying a new revival.
A varied anthology for a winter evening, mixing famous names with forgotten writers of the uncanny. Download the free EPUB.