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The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories

Author: 
Lee, Vernon; Worth, Aaron
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  • A wholly new selection, including six stories in addition to the complete 1890 collection Hauntings
  • The first edition to draw upon Lee's newly published correspondence
  • Extensive explanatory notes illuminating and contextualizing Lee's tales

      
I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead...
      
Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music, literature, and history, but also a small but exquisitely crafted group of Gothic tales, most of which first appeared in fin de siècle periodicals including the iconic Yellow Book. In these stories of obsession and possession, transgressive desire reaches out from the past — through a haunting portrait, a murdered poet's lock of hair, the uncanny voice of a diabolical castrato — dragging Lee's protagonists to their doom. Among those haunted by Lee's 'spurious ghosts' was Henry James, who praised her 'gruesome, graceful...ingenious tales, full of imagination'.
        
This new edition includes Lee's landmark 1890 collection Hauntings complete, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay 'Faustus and Helena', in which Lee probes the elusive nature of the supernatural as a 'vital...fluctuating...potent' force that resists definite representation. Aaron Worth's contextual introduction, drawing upon Lee's newly published letters, reassesses her place in the pantheon of the fantastic.

Index: 

Introduction
   
Winthrop's Adventure
Oke of Okehurst; or, the Phantom Lover
Amour Dure
Dionea
A Wicked Voice
The Legend of Madame Krasinska
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers
Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady
The Doll
Marsyas in Flanders
   

Appendix I: Faustus and Helena
Appendix II: Preface to Hauntings
Explanatory Notes

About the author: 

Vernon Lee
Edited by Aaron Worth, Boston University
    
Aaron Worth is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University who has previously edited The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (2019) by Arthur Machen and Green Tea and Other Weird Tales (2020) by Sheridan Le Fanu for Oxford World's Classics. His own horror fiction has appeared in publications including Cemetery Dance Magazine and Vastarien.

Product details

ISBN : 9780198837541

Author: 
Lee, Vernon; Worth, Aaron
Pages
400 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Sep 2022
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories