Dermot Chesson Spence - Little Red Shoes

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Hello,

Has anybody read "Little Red Shoes" by Dermot Chesson Spence?

What impressions have you got?

Why hasn't this collection been republished since 1995 ?

thank you in advance for answers

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Haven't read it but it sounds really creepy. I'd like to read it.

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This is apparently one of those books which have always been rare.

"Of all the items on the James Gang List, Little Red Shoes (William & Norgate, 1937) is probably the scarcest and most frustrating to try and find. The three stories that have been anthologised from it - the title tale, "The House on the Rynek" and "The Dean's Bargain" - are really first rate, and stimulate one to seek out the author's only collection with the hope that the rest of the contents will be just as imaginative, chilling and exciting. That's as far as most of us have ever got! The book is well nigh impossible to find; in forty years of collecting, it has always eluded me. Until this splendid new edition from Ghost Story Press, that is." -- David Rowlands' review in Ghosts & Scholars#21

Dem has already synopsised Little Red Shoes and The House on the Rynek.

"Little Red Shoes" didn't do it for me. But "The Dean's Bargain" is good fun (inadvertently learning a curse from an old book that actually works). Yet to find "The House on the Rynek".

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I have read "The House on the Rynek" only.

It is sombre , non politically correct and even has a slight simblance with "Ringu".