Alice Brown

Alice Brown (1857 - 1948) had first made her mark in the literary world in 1895, and she continued writing until shortly before her death, by which time she was established as one of the very best of the group of New England writers which included Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett. Many of Brown’s works contain elements of the mystic and fantastic, and on occasion she - like Wilkins-Freeman and Jewett - strayed into the territory of the outright supernatural. Most of these works have been unjustly forgotten in the decades since they were written; but from the poignancy of “The Island” to the stark horror of war as depicted in “The Empire of Death”, her work bears comparison with that of the very finest supernaturalists of her day, and its rediscovery shows Alice Brown to have been a writer with a keen and sensitive eye for the ways in which other worlds can intrude upon our own.

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The Empire of Death and Other Strange Stories gathers Alice Brown’s supernatural fiction, from the poignancy of “The Island” to the stark horror of war in “The Empire of Death”, work that bears comparison with the finest supernaturalists of her day.

Edition Details

• Dust Jacket illustrated by Deborah McMillion-Nering.
• This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.

External Links

• The Empire of Death and Other Strange Stories. ISFDB entry for The Empire of Death and Other Strange Stories