Eleanor Scott

Broschiertes Buch

Randalls Round

Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott

Herausgeber: Worth, Aaron

Beschreibung

Randalls Round has long been revered by devotees of the weird tale. First published in 1929, its stories of ritualistic folk horror and M. R. James-inspired accounts of ancient forces terrorising humanity are thoroughly deserving of wider recognition.

Autor

Eleanor Scott was a pseudonym used by Helen Magdalen Leys (1892-1965), an Oxford-based teacher and author of a handful of novels and short stories. Her debut novel War Among Ladies was published in 1928, followed in 1929 by Randalls Round and the first of two detective novels published under the pseudonym P. R. Shore. Aaron Worth is professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He has edited collections of stories by Arthur Machen and Sheridan Le Fanu for the Oxford World Classics series, and was the author of Imperial Media, a study of how advances in media and technology shaped the British Literary Imagination in the late nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• British Library Tales of the Weird
• Verlag: British Library Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 129mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9780712354059
• ISBN-10: 0712354050
• Artikelnr.: 62185546