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Hauntings: Fantastic Stories
Author: | Vernon Lee |
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William Heinemann, 1890 |
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Book Type: | Collection |
Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, "My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own." First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection enables readers to consider Lee's work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle.
Table of Contents:
- Preface (Hauntings) - essay by Vernon Lee
- Amour Dure: Passages from the Diary of Spiridion Trepka - (1887) - novelette
- Dionea - novelette
- Oke of Okehurst - novella (variant of A Phantom Lover 1886)
- A Wicked Voice - novelette
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