Bewitching ghost stories from seminal short story writer Vernon Lee, beautifully captured in the Smith Taylor Classics series. "My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts, of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own" Shipwrecked before a remote Italian coastal village, a young girl discovers the ability to command love and incite madness a Polish historian is drawn to the enigmatic allure of a medieval Duchess with a deadly past a painter, hired to capture the likeness of a reclusive couple, slowly uncovers a mysterious love affair and a man with a voice that is as deadly as it is beautiful eats away at the health of those who hear him sing, troubling a composer years later. Once described by Henry James as being "as dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent," Vernon Lees ghost stories haunt as much as they reveal an obsession with art, architecture, and deadly, queer desires. Even the smallest vibration from the past signals danger for the characters in Hauntings from the emanations of old houses and old books to the discovery of old portraits, objects come alive and worm into the minds of the living. Featuring a conversational afterword from writers Gretchen FelkerMartin and Kayla Jumari Upadhyaya.

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