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British Library Tales of the Weird #68

Possessed

A Lost Novel of the Occult

Johnny Mains, Rosalie and Edward Synton

Publication
1927
Publisher
British Library Publishing

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John Travers has been hanged for the murder of his mother-in-law Helga, but to those who knew him something is amiss. Driven by justice and a sense of uncanny forces at work, John’s friend Doctor Toogood recounts a haunting tale of love and jealousy under the fell influence of a shadowy and implacable evil. First published in 1927 this novel has been lost for almost a century and will be republished by the British Library as part of their Tales of the Weird series in December 2025.

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#1From the Depths #2Haunted Houses #3Glimpses of the Unknown #4Mortal Echoes #5Spirits of the Season #6The Platform Edge #7The Face in the Glass #8The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson #9Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy #10Evil Roots #11Promethean Horrors #12Roarings from Further Out #13Tales of the Tattooed #14The Outcast: and Other Dark Tales by E F Benson #15A Phantom Lover #16Into the London Fog #17Weird Woods #18Queens of the Abyss #19Chill Tidings #20Dangerous Dimensions #21Heavy Weather #22Minor Hauntings #23Crawling Horror #24Cornish Horrors #25I Am Stone #26Randalls Round #27Sunless Solstice #28Shadows on the Wall #29The Ghost Slayers #30The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media #31Our Haunted Shores #32The Horned God #33Spectral Sounds #34Haunters at the Hearth #35Polar Horrors #36The Flaw in the Crystal: And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair #37The Ways of Ghosts #38Holy Ghosts #39The Uncanny Gastronomic #40The Lure of Atlantis #41Dead Drunk #42The House on the Borderland #43Roads of Destiny #44Circles of Stone #45Doomed Romances #46The Undying Monster #47Fear in the Blood #48Out of the Past #49The Night Land #50Deadly Dolls #51The Human Chord #52Eerie East Anglia #53The Haunted Trail #54The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes #55The Haunted Vintage #56Summoned to the Séance #57Weird Sisters #58Julia Roseingrave #59Spores of Doom #60Medusa #61Return of the Ancients #62Phantoms of Kernow #63The Lost Stradivarius #64The Wayfarer's Weird #65The Tiger-Skin #66All the Fear of the Fair #67The Haunted Library #68Possessed #69Bird of Ill Omen #70The Black Fox #71The New Flesh #72The Luck of the Town #73Beasts with Five Fingers #74Haunted Yorkshire #75Danse Macabre #76The Black Mirror #77Fiendish Felines #78 · Coming 2026Terror Australis #79 · Coming 2026A Walk on the Weird Side #80 · Coming 1948The Unwelcome
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Johnny Mains

Johnny Mains is a British Fantasy Award-winning editor and genre researcher. He was Project Editor on the 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories, created the critically acclaimed series Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians (co-edited with Robin Ince) and has spent the last five years deep in the archives,…

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