Six Ghost Stories

'Tell me strange things’ the dandified clergyman and vampirologist Montague Summers was wont to say. With this volume, Summers’ enthusiastic contribution to the tradition of ghostly and gothic fiction, readers can at last encounter a full-fledged collection of his own strange tales. Unpublished during his lifetime, despite its exquisite quality, which was attested to by the author and medievalist M. R. James, Six Ghost Stories displays a range from the gruesome to the grotesquely comic, presenting posthumous vendettas, a bibliophile who unwittingly seeks domestic help from an unusual location, a toy theatre that affords its new owner a glimpse into the bloodiest tragedy of the Victorian stage, and other spectral intrusions. These pieces showcase Summers’ love of scandal, diablerie and the theatre, as well as offering a fascinating glimpse into the creative process of one of the most colourful men of Edwardian letters.

„Spune-mi lucruri ciudate” obisnuia sa spuna duhovnicul cleric si vampirolog Montague Summers. Cu acest volum, contributia entuziasta a lui Summers la traditia fictiunii fantomatice si gotice, cititorii pot intalni in cele din urma o colectie completa a propriilor sale povesti ciudate.