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Post by Anna Tuvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 17:19:21 GMT
 Published October 26th 2021 by Handheld Classics ISBN 1912766426 (ISBN13: 9781912766420) Edition Language English Blurb: Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century. Melissa Edmundson has curated this selection of the best of Mordaunt's supernatural short fiction, which blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, possession, conjuration from the dead and witchcraft. Each story is an original and compelling contribution to the genre, making this selection a marvellous new showcase for women's writing in classic supernatural fiction. Content introduction, by Melissa Edmundson Works Cited Publication Dates 1 Weakening Point 2 The Country-side 3 The Vortex 4 Hodge 5 The Fountain 6 'Luz' 7 The Landlady 8 Four Wallpapers 9 The Villa Notes on the stories, by Kate Macdonald (Had to type this in by hand) |
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Post by Anna Tuvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 17:58:35 GMT
Elinor Mordaunt died in 1942. So books by her should be available for free, but I don't know if any were specific ghost story/weird collections.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 20, 2022 18:25:36 GMT
Thanks, Anna. Elinor Mordaunt sounds potentially intriguing.
cheers, Hel
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Post by Anna Tuvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 18:33:50 GMT
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