"I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard."A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a cathedral's hallowed inner sanctum; sheltering in an Alpine chapel,a young libertine confronts his eerie monastic doppelganger; locked in a Spanish cathedral,a honeymooning couple bears witness to a fatal procession. Churches and other sacred sites have inspired writers of the weird and uncanny for centuries as spaces in which death and the afterlife are within touching distance - where ghosts,demons and possessed effigies remain to haunt the living. Through eleven stories published between 1851 and 1935,this new anthology revives a throng of undying spirits from a host of unsung and classic authors including Elizabeth Gaskell,M. R. James,John Wyndham,and Edith Wharton.
Publisher: British Library PublishingISBN: 9780712354134Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm
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