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Awrence (1185-1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. Ome of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his “savage pilgrimage.” The literary critic F. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness.

Lawrence (1185-1930) was an English writer and poet. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his “savage pilgrimage.” The literary critic F.

In his short life, British writer D awrence (18851930) established himself as the author of such pioneering and controversial novels as Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women in Love But throughout his career, Lawrence was attracted by the strange and fantastic, and this interest emerged in an array of stories that reflect many of the concerns of his mainstream fiction.

Everal of Lawrence's weird tales were commissioned by Lady Cynthia Asquith for her various anthologies, including The Ghost Book (1926) It was for this volume that Lawrence wrote his most famous horror story, “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” a grim tale of psychological terror and ambiguous supernaturalism squith had rejected an earlier submission, “Glad Ghosts,” although this is also a powerful story in which a thinly disguised version of Lawrence himself appears as a character.

Many of Lawrence's ghost stories feature complex love triangles n “The Border Line,” the ghost of a first husband prevents his former wife from saving the life of her second husband. “The Lovely Lady” is the compelling story of a domineering woman who has sucked the life out of her dead son and is about to do the same to her still-living son Lawrence's move to Taos, New Mexico, in 1922 inspired the bizarre novelette “The Woman Who Rode Away,” where a European woman becomes enmeshed in primitive rituals in the American Southwest.

He story also hints of the revival of ancient gods The book is edited by S Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction and the author of Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012).

Edition Details

• Limited to 250 copies, each signed by S. T. Joshi and Cristina Bencina.
• New introduction by S. T. Joshi.
• All of D. H. Lawrence’s macabre short fiction collected in one volume.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, deboss stamp on front board.

External Links

• The Rocking-Horse Winner. Centipede Press page for The Rocking-Horse Winner
• D. H. Lawrence (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for D. H. Lawrence