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`The hand moved ... an awful, brooding, vengeful presence was hidden within the smiling doll -- a sinister spirit from behind the veil, swift and relentless in its message of doom.`The twelve mystery stories in this collection relate inexplicable episodes of madness and revenge, terror and obsession, the grotesque and the arabesque, the scientific and the supernatural. Sometimes we find ghosts or other phantoms at the heart of the mystery, but in other cases eerie incidentsarise out of apparently everyday situations and these ordinary origins make the uncanniness even more chilling.Jack Adrian brings together stories by well-known writers in the crime and mystery genre, such as Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, and rarer stories which have for decades been unavailable to readers.… (más)
More interesting as artifacts than thrilling reading material. ‘Mystery’ in the title refers to stories that invoke wonder, dread or suspense, and though most of them are concerned with the solving of crimes, a few have supernatural themes. The stories are presented chronologically by publication date and, to my mind, are more interesting the newer they are. Each bears scrutiny, but are probably more to scholars than beach readers. The Man with the Ebony Crutches (with some nice steampunk details) presages the coming of WW I, The Yellow Box is a nice ambiguous story about haunting and obsession, The Story of the Man with Watches has gay elements, The Horror of the Automaton is genuinely creepy, and the oldest story, A Night in an Old Castle (1843) is notable because of its smooth and unadorned prose. Jack Adrian has done a lot of good work pulling together anthologies of stories that have fallen out of favor through neglect. His ‘stories from the Strand’ collections are the strongest that I know of.
`The hand moved ... an awful, brooding, vengeful presence was hidden within the smiling doll -- a sinister spirit from behind the veil, swift and relentless in its message of doom.`The twelve mystery stories in this collection relate inexplicable episodes of madness and revenge, terror and obsession, the grotesque and the arabesque, the scientific and the supernatural. Sometimes we find ghosts or other phantoms at the heart of the mystery, but in other cases eerie incidentsarise out of apparently everyday situations and these ordinary origins make the uncanniness even more chilling.Jack Adrian brings together stories by well-known writers in the crime and mystery genre, such as Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, and rarer stories which have for decades been unavailable to readers.
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