E. Nesbit

E. Nesbit is the author of In The Dark.

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In The Dark,included are such famous tales as “Man-Size in Marble” and “John Charrington’s Wedding”, along with less well known, but equally chilling, stories of the supernatural and the macabre. In Nesbit’s twilight world, the dead return from the grave; scientists pursue knowledge to the gates of death, and beyond; souls are bartered to the Devil in exchange for one last wish; a casual wager leads to madness; and a seemingly harmless maker of models exacts a terrible price for a wrong done years before. In his introduction, Hugh Lamb examines the colourful life of Edith Nesbit, painting a portrait of a woman whose unconventional life set her apart from her Victorian and Edwardian contemporaries in the ghost story genre. He also looks at some of the events and experiences which may have inspired Nesbit’s supernatural fiction, events which, in the author’s words, gave her “nights and nights of anguish and horror, long years of bitterest fear and dread”.

Edition Details

• Dust Jacket illustrated by Richard Lamb.
• This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.

External Links

• In The Dark. ISFDB entry for In The Dark