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Bewitching ghost stories from seminal short story writer Vernon Lee, beautifully captured in the Smith & Taylor Classics series. "My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts, of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my...
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Bewitching ghost stories from seminal short story writer Vernon Lee, beautifully captured in the Smith & Taylor Classics series.
"My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts, of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own..."
Shipwrecked before a remote Italian coastal village, a young girl discovers the ability to command love and incite madness; a Polish historian is drawn to the enigmatic allure of a medieval Duchess with a deadly past; a painter, hired to capture the likeness of a reclusive couple, slowly uncovers a mysterious love affair; and a man with a voice that is as deadly as it is beautiful eats away at the health of those who hear him sing, troubling a composer years later.
Once described by Henry James as being "as dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent," Vernon Lee's ghost stories haunt as much as they reveal an obsession with art, architecture, and deadly, queer desires. Even the smallest vibration from the past signals danger for the characters in Hauntings: from the emanations of old houses and old books to the discovery of old portraits, objects come alive and worm into the minds of the living.
Featuring a conversational afterword from writers Gretchen Felker-Martin and Kayla Jumari Upadhyaya.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781961884663
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 December 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Smith &Taylor Classics
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Series edited by Brandon Taylor
- Series edited by Allison Miriam Smith
- With Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
- With Gretchen Felker-Martin
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Weight: 250g
Pages: 198
About the Author
Vernon Lee (1856-1935)-the pen name of the writer Violet Paget-was a travel writer, novelist, musician, and critic. Primarily remembered today for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics, she spent most of her life in Florence, Italy, where she cultivated friendships with artists such as Telemaco Signorini, Edith Wharton, and Henry James. One of the first to bring the concept of Einfhlung, or empathy, into English criticism, she was an outspoken follower of Walter Pater's aestheticism and vocal pacifist until her death in 1935.
Gretchen Felker-Martin is a Massachusetts-based bestselling horror author and film critic. Her debut novel, Manhunt, was named the #1 Best Book of 2022 by Vulture, and was one of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 by Esquire, Library Journal, and Paste. Her sophomore novel, Cuckoo, debuted on the USA Today bestseller list. You can read her fiction and film criticism on Patreon and in TIME, The Outline, Nylon, and more.
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. Her queer horror novelette Helen House was named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle, an assistant fiction editor at Foglifter, and the former managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and others. Some of her culture writing can be found in The Cut, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Refinery29, and Vice, and she previously worked as a restaurant reporter for Eater NY. She was a 2023-2024 Tin House Reading Fellow and a 2023 Lambda writer in residence. Her fiction will be featured in the upcoming anthology Be Gay, Do Crime, out from Dzanc Books in 2025.
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