Hauntings (1890) is a short story collection by Vernon Lee.
Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of
Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, Hauntings
collects four of her most chilling tales of the supernatural.
Employing formal techniques to mimic diary and letter writing, Lee
brings her reader face to face with the psychological unease
embodied in her characters. A principled feminist and committed
pacifist, Lee was virtually blacklisted by critics and publishers
following her opposition to the First World War. Through the
efforts of dedicated scholars, however, interest in her works has
increased over the past several decades, granting her the
readership she deserves as a master of literary horror. "They are
things of the imagination, born there, bred there, sprung from the
strange confused heaps, half-rubbish, half-treasure, which lie in
our fancy, heaps of half-faded recollections, of fragmentary vivid
impressions, litter of multi-colored tatters, and faded herbs and
flowers, whence arises that odor (we all know it), musty and damp,
but penetratingly sweet and intoxicatingly heady, which hangs in
the air when the ghost has swept through the unopened door, and the
flickering flames of candle and fire start up once more after
waning." Vernon Lee's world is one where ghosts and humans walk
together, often without taking notice of one another. In those
instances when they do, however, strange and terrible things are
likely to occur. The stories in this collection record such fateful
encounters: a German academic becomes obsessed with a lady of the
Italian Renaissance; a young girl is discovered alone on the
Italian coast following a brutal storm; a painter grows uneasy at
the resemblance of a subject to one of her distant ancestors; and a
composer hears the voice of a famous castrato dead for centuries.
Hauntings is a masterful work from the mind of Vernon Lee, one of
history's most terrifying storytellers. With a beautifully designed
cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Vernon
Lee's Hauntings is a classic work of supernatural fiction
reimagined for modern readers.
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