A Phantom Lover and Other Tales by Vernon Lee

Be prepared to enter a unique and unsettling world in this new collection of dark fantasies from the unparalleled imagination of Vernon Lee. These are tales of lonely souls possessed by recurring tragedies of the past, holy sanctuaries disrupted by unruly pagan forces and aspiring youths enthralled and consumed by the undying art of their ancestors.

From the modernised folktales "Marsyas in Flander" and "The Legend of Madam Krasinska" to ingenious psychological hauntings such as "A Phantom Lover" and "Amour Dure", Lee's captivating voice rings out just as distinctively now as in her fin-de-siècle heyday.

Vernon Lee was the nom de plume of Violet Paget (1856-1934), a British author and essayist, outspoken in her feminist and pacifist views and relationships with other women. She lived much of her life in Europe, immersed in artistic and literary traditions which would influence her pioneering work in the Aesthetic movement and her stunning original fiction.

Mike Ashley is an expert on popular fiction of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century who has published more than one hundred books on the subject. His Tales of the Weird anthologies include Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories and From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea..

Format: Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780712353816
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 16 April, 2020
Weight: 268 g
Dimensions: 190 x 131 x 18 mm

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