In the Dark: Tales of Terror by E. Nesbit

In the Dark: Tales of Terror by E. Nesbit
E. Nesbit

Hugh Lamb

Edith Nesbit’s natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children’s author. But beyond her beloved children’s stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural.Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked, in her own words, ‘nights and nights of anguish and horror, long years of bitterest fear and dread’, Nesbit was inspired to pen terrifying stories of a twilight world where the dead walked the earth.All but forgotten for almost a hundred years until In the Dark was first published 30 years ago, this collection finally restored Nesbit’s reputation as a one of the most accomplished and entertaining ghost-story writers of the Victorian age.With seven extra newly-discovered stories now appearing for the first time in paperback, this revised edition includes an introduction by Hugh Lamb exploring the life of the woman behind these tales and the events and experiences that contributed to her fascination with the macabre.

IN THE DARK

E. Nesbit

Edited, with an Introduction, by

HUGH LAMB

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First published in Great Britain by Equation 1988

Selection, Introduction, and Notes © Hugh Lamb 2017

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Source ISBN: 9780008249014

Ebook Edition © September 2017 ISBN: 9780008249021

Version: 2017-08-10

Dedication (#u11f95d39-6586-5c88-b91d-94bc38cbe7e0)

To the beautiful Marisol – my partner and guardian angel.

Table of Contents

Cover (#uea821a03-32ad-50ac-9d40-170d75384bfe)

Title Page (#u7210c5f8-2010-52ae-a252-b5d62ed08685)

Copyright (#ubd8824ea-2640-5638-b918-34341fcf5ffe)

Dedication (#ue90ba2c7-4ab5-5d47-aa17-0fecd7e819ec)

Introduction (#u78013819-a74a-5b80-abb4-e80cf430e2d5)

Man-Size in Marble (#u6134805d-7e02-52f1-ab48-48524fcf2cc9)

Uncle Abraham’s Romance (#ube8bd1ca-fc91-52ce-a6a0-29df2f77a90a)

From the Dead (#ud93fdddc-1a8f-5cda-8230-122c26e23c4f)

The Haunted Inheritance (#u90caed8a-c3ba-5964-b391-6eec81217768)

The Three Drugs (#uea79c22d-09db-5248-9adb-d789b9ef5b46)

The Letter in Brown Ink (#litres_trial_promo)

The Violet Car (#litres_trial_promo)

John Charrington’s Wedding (#litres_trial_promo)

No. 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

The Pavilion (#litres_trial_promo)

The House of Silence (#litres_trial_promo)

The Mystery of the Semi-Detached (#litres_trial_promo)

In the Dark (#litres_trial_promo)

The Head (#litres_trial_promo)

The Ebony Frame (#litres_trial_promo)

Hurst of Hurstcote (#litres_trial_promo)

The Five Senses (#litres_trial_promo)

The Haunted House (#litres_trial_promo)

The Shadow (#litres_trial_promo)

The Detective (#litres_trial_promo)