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The Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924

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Description: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.Stories in The Villa and The Vortex include:The Villa’, in which death is brought into a Croatian mansion, but it’s not so easy to ask it to leave.‘The Country-side’, in which a very ordinary infidelity demands the ultimate sacrifice.‘Four wallpapers’, in which stripping off the wall coverings of a Spanish chateau re-enacts a family tragedy.‘Hodge’ (previously published in Women’s Weird) in which two adolescents bring a prehistoric man into their own time, and their home.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924. To get started finding The Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2021

ISBN: 1912766426

Description: 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.Stories in The Villa and The Vortex include:The Villa’, in which death is brought into a Croatian mansion, but it’s not so easy to ask it to leave.‘The Country-side’, in which a very ordinary infidelity demands the ultimate sacrifice.‘Four wallpapers’, in which stripping off the wall coverings of a Spanish chateau re-enacts a family tragedy.‘Hodge’ (previously published in Women’s Weird) in which two adolescents bring a prehistoric man into their own time, and their home.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924. To get started finding The Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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