Glimpses of the Unknown

A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; a faithful butler continues to serve his master despite being shot dead days ago; the last words of a dying man haunt the airwaves, only to return via telegram to reveal his murderer.

From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early 20th century. Waiting within are malevolent spirits eager to possess the living and mysterious spectral guardians – a diverse host of phantoms exhumed from the rare pages of literary magazines and newspaper serials to thrill once more.

Contents

Introduction
1. On the Embankment (1919) by Hugh E. Wright
2. The Mystery of the Gables (1908) by Elsie Norris
3. The Missing Word (1907) by Austin Philips
4. Phantom Death (1900) by Charles H. Mansfield and Walter E. Mansfield
5. The Wraith of the Rapier (1911) by Firth Scott
6. The Soul of Maddalina Tonelli (1909) by James Barr
7. Haunted! (1910) by Jack Edwards
8. Our Strange Traveller (1911) by Percy James Brebner
9. A Regent of Love Rhymes (1905) by C. Ranger Gull
10. Amid the Trees (1911) by Francis Xavier
11. The River's Edge (1912) by Mary Schultze
12. A Futile Ghost (1899) by Mary Reynolds
13. Ghosts (1914) by Lumley Deakin
14. Kearney (1917) by Elizabeth G. Jordan
15. When Spirits Steal (1920) by Philippa Forest
16. The House of the Black Evil (1929) by Eric Purves
17. The Woman in the Veil (1928) by E. F. Benson
18. The Treasure of the Tombs (1921) by F. Britten Austin