Tales Of The Grotesque: A Collection of Uneasy Tales
- Written by L. A. Lewis
- ISBN: 1-900441-03-9 (978-1-900441-03-2)
- Format: Hardcover, x+130pp
- Publish Date: October 2003
- Publication Type: Collection
- Original Price: £16.50
- Genre: Supernatural Fiction
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L. A. Lewis
Squadron Leader L.A. Lewis (Leslie Allin Lewis, 1899–1961) published Tales of the Grotesque in 1934 in Philip Allan’s “Creeps” series. Richard Dalby, who tracked him down decades later, ranked him among the best British writers of macabre fiction in the short form.
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L.A. Lewis’s 1934 Creeps volume is a benchmark of interwar British weird fiction: crypts, hybrids, and iron swine delivered in a cold, compressed style that Dalby championed as among the best macabre work of its day. This printing restores the texts of the 1994 Ghost Story Press edition, which had added “The Author’s Tale” and Dalby’s biographical essay “The Quest for Lewis.”
Edition Details
- Limited to 300 numbered copies; corrected reissue superseding the 1994 Ghost Story Press edition.
- One of the final Ghost Story Press titles, published with They Might Be Ghosts on the press’ s tenth anniversary.
- Bound in pictorial cloth; front board design by Steven Stapleton; frontispiece reproduces dust-jacket artwork from the 1934 Philip Allan first edition; no dust jacket.
- Catalogued on FantLab; supersedes the 1994 Ghost Story Press printing (ISBN 0-9520492-5-2).
Contents:
- The Quest for Lewis essay
- Lost Keep (1934)
- Hybrid (1934)
- The Tower of Moab (1934)
- The Child (1934)
- The Dirk (1934)
- The Chords of Chaos (1929)
- The Meerschaum Pipe (1934)
- Haunted Air (1934)
- The Iron Swine (1934)
- Animate in Death (1934)
- The Author’s Tale (1934)
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