Mortal Echoes: Encounters With the End

by Greg Buzwell (Editor)

Overview

A strange figure foretells tragedy on the railway tracks. A plague threatens to encroach upon an isolated castle. The daughter of an eccentric scientist falls victim to a poisonous curse.

Yet for all its certainty and finality, death remains an infinitely mysterious subject to us all. The stories in this anthology depict the haunting moment when characters come face-to-face with their own mortality.

Spanning two centuries, Mortal Echoes features some of the finest writers in the English language, including Edgar Allan Poe, Graham Greene, May Sinclair, and H. G. Wells. Intriguing, unsettling and often darkly humorous, this collection explores humanity’s transient existence, and what it means to be alive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780712352819
Publisher:	British Library Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2019
Series:	Tales of the Weird
Edition description:	None
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Greg Buzwell is Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives and Manuscripts at the British Library.

Table of Contents

C O N T E N T S
Introduction 7
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu 11
The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe 41
Rappaccini’s Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 51
The Signal-Man - Charles Dickens 87
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce (1842–c.1914) 105
The King is Dead, Long Live the King - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 119
Under the Knife - Herbert George Wells 129
Laura - Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) 147
Where Their Fire is not Quenched - May Sinclair 155
Kecksies - Marjorie Bowen 183
A Little Place off the Edgware Road - Graham Greene 203
Your Tiny Hand is Frozen - Robert Aickman 213
Kiss me Again, Stranger - Daphne du Maurier 243
The School - Donald Barthelme 273
Death by Scrabble - Charlie Fish 279