This volume includes short stories about a 16th century assassination, a composer haunted by a ghostly voice, and a woman saved from suicide by a ghost.

SUPERNATURAL TALES

Literature & Fiction

Lee, Vernon

Genre Fiction

RANDOM HOUSE UK

He lusts and kills in equal measure. The brutal Don Juan - an unrepentant sinner - makes a pact with the Virgin of the Seven Daggers. He promises to forever proclaim her supreme beauty and asks that in return she save him from damnation. Emboldened by the deal and driven by insatiable greed, he embarks on a necromantic journey to an enchanted palace beneath the Alhambra. In an orgy of beasts, demons and slumbering infantas, Don Juan is called upon to uphold his side of the bargain and in doing so lose everything his lustful heart desires.

Red Classics the Virigin of the Seven Daggers

Penguin Classic

I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead...\nVernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music, literature, and history, but also a small but exquisitely crafted group of Gothic tales, most of which first appeared in fin de siècle periodicals including the iconic Yellow Book. In these stories of obsession and possession, transgressive desire reaches out from the past -- through a haunting portrait, a murdered poet's lock of hair, the uncanny voice of a diabolical castrato -- dragging Lee's protagonists to their doom. Among those haunted by Lee's 'spurious ghosts' was Henry James, who praised her 'gruesome, graceful...ingenious tales, full of imagination'.\nThis new edition includes Lee's landmark 1890 collection Hauntings complete, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay 'Faustus and Helena', in which Lee probes the elusive nature of the supernatural as a 'vital...fluctuating...potent' force that resists definite representation. Aaron Worth's contextual introduction, drawing upon Lee's newly published letters, reassesses her place in the pantheon of the fantastic.\nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

Worth, Aaron

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Satan, the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy With Notes & Introduction

Dramas & Plays

Franklin Classics

The Enchanted Woods

Wentworth Press

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Genius Loci: Notes on Places

History

Europe

Kessinger Publishing

Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance

World

BiblioLife

Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediæval in the Renaissance. Vol. I

Trieste Publishing

<div>During her lifetime, Violet Paget, who wrote as Vernon Lee, was referred to as "the greatest of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction," and yet today she remains on the periphery of the genre. This collection of her uniquely weird short stories and dark fantasies proves why she was once considered among the best of the genre, and why she deserves to return to those ranks today. From modernized folk tales such as "Marsyas in Flanders" and "The Legend of Madame Krasinska" to ingenious psychological hauntings such as the titular "A Phantom Lover" and "A Wicked Voice," Lee's own voice is just as distinctive and captivating--her weird imaginings just as freshly unsettling--as in her fin desiècle heyday.</div>

A Phantom Lover: And Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee (Tales of the Weird)

British Library Publishing

Includes short stories about a 16th century assassination, a composer haunted by a ghostly voice, and a woman saved from suicide by a ghost

Supernatural Tales: Excursions into Fantasy

Short Stories & Anthologies

Dufour Editions

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