Little Red Shoes, And Other Tales Of The Odd And Unseen
- Written by Dermot Chesson Spence
- ISBN: 0-9520492-9-5 (978-0-9520492-9-6)
- Format: Hardcover, xvi+235pp
- Publish Date: 1995
- Publication Type: Collection
- Original Price: £35.00
- Genre: Supernatural Fiction
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Dermot Chesson Spence
Dermot Chesson Spence (1880–1960) published Little Red Shoes and Other Tales of the Odd and Unseen with Williams & Norgate in 1937. His stories favour the quietly uncanny, odd incidents and unseen presences rather than overt horror.
About
Dermot Chesson Spence dedicated his only prose book to Fryn Tennyson Jesse, M.R. James, and Hodgson “in humble emulation.” The tales favour odd, understated hauntings—Visby, Budapest, Lostwick Hall, the Rynek—over shocks of horror; the mood is Edwardian unease filtered through interwar domesticity rather than Jamesian archaeology.
Edition Details
- Limited edition of 350 numbered copies; reissue of the 1937 Williams & Norgate volume.
- Bound in pictorial cloth in a dust jacket; cover Little Red Shoes and Other Tales of the Odd and Unseen by Steven Stapleton.
- Introduction by Keith Spence; nineteen stories and two poems.
- Copyright page gives ISBN 0-9520492-4-7 (printed 0-9520-492-4-7); this fails the ISBN-10 checksum (the valid number in the Ghost Story Press sequence is 0-9520492-9-5).
- Catalogued on FantLab.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Pleasant House
- The Dean’s Bargain
- The Master Of Lostwick Hall
- The Making Of The Melpomene Press
- Even The Dead Are Lucky Sometimes
- Knucklebones
- The House On The Rynek
- Honourable Dog
- Does She Want Help?
- The Old Man In Green
- Episode In Budapest
- James And John
- Wymondley
- A Holiday In Visby
- Taxi! Taxi!
- The Story That Can Never Be Told
- Three Bed-Time Stories:
- Regine versus Pump
- The Last Laugh
- Little Annabel
- Little Red Shoes
- The House Under The Hill
- Bibliography
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