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y separately published work icon Crooked Houses anthology   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Crooked Houses
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'Alas! Is there a theme in supernatural fiction more prone to cliché and cozy familiarity than the haunted house story?

'With this mammoth new anthology, Egaeus Press aims to reclaim that supremely primal tradition, not only from glossy movies, cartoons and television-era ghost hunters, but also from the Victorians, and the great, academic spook story authors of the 20th Century who, by their nature, sought to calibrate, anthropomorphise and provide justification for acts by forces which might hitherto have been considered beyond the scope of human comprehension.

'Crooked Houses takes its cue from this earlier age. Though many of the stories presented are set in the modern world, the forces which pervade are primeval, unquantifiable; the stuff of folk-tales, family curses and collective nightmares.

'These houses have very deep roots. These houses have teeth.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Egaeus Press , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
At Lothesley, Montgomeryshire, 1910, James Doig , single work short story (p. 275-298)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Egaeus Press ,
      2020 .
      image of person or book cover 2009697704671063402.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 352p.p.
      Limited edition info: 325 copies
      Note/s:
      • Published 25 July 2020.
      ISBN: 9781916465770, 1916465773
Last amended 26 Oct 2020 15:10:19
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