The Beast with Five Fingers: Supernatural Stories
- Publication
- May 2009
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
About the Book
The brilliant and scary The Beast with Five Fingers, is the first entry in this mammoth collection of strange and chilling short stories by W. F. Harvey, an unjustly neglected author of supernatural tales. This unique volume demonstrates clearly that Harvey is one of the masters of the genre. Along with such classics as August Heat, which concerns two strangers whose individual fates become inextricably entwined in a nightmare scenario and the gruesome school yarn, The Dabblers, you will find such minor masterpieces of the uncanny as The Man Who Hated Aspidistras, Sarah Bennet's Possession, The Habeas Corpus Club and many more stories which refreshingly avoid the cliche while at the same time creating that wonderfully eerie sense of fear.
Contents
Introduction by David Stuart Davies
1. The Beast with Five Fingers (1919)
2. Midnight House (1910)
3. The Dabblers (1928)
4. Unwinding (1910)
5. Mrs. Ormerod (1946)
6. Double Demon (1946)
7. The Tool (1928)
8. The Heart of the Fire (1928)
9. The Clock (1928)
10. Peter Levisham (1928)
11. Miss Cornelius (1978)
12. The Man Who Hated Aspidistras (1946)
13. Sambo (1910)
14. The Star (1910)
15. Across the Moors (1910)
16. The Follower (1946)
17. August Heat (1910)
18. Sarah Bennet's Possession (1910)
19. The Ankardyne Pew (1979)
20. Miss Avenal (1928)
21. Last of the Race (1910)
22. Deaf and Dumb (1910)
23. A Middle-Class Tragedy (1910)
24. The Fern (1910)
25. The Angel of Stone (1910)
26. The Tortoise (1910)
27. After the Flower Show (1910)
28. The Desecrator (1910)
29. The Educationalist (1910)
30. Dead of Night (1951)
31. Mishandled (1951)
32. The Habeas Corpus Club (1951)
33. The Long Road (1951)
34. The Lake (1951)
35. Chemist and Druggist (1951)
36. Euphemia Witchmaid (1951)
37. Ripe for Development (1951)
38. Atmospherics (1951)
39. The Vicar's Web (1951)
40. Dark Horses (1951)
41. The Arm of Mrs. Egan (1951)
42. Old Masters (1951)
43. No Body (1951)
44. Account Rendered (1951)
45. The Flying Out of Mrs. Barnard Hollis (1951)
