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Crooked Houses edited by Mark Beech (Egaeus Press, 2021) Hardcover Second Printing Limited to 250 Copies

Crooked Houses edited by Mark Beech (Egaeus Press, 2021) Hardcover Second Printing Limited to 250 Copies

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Mark Beech, editor. Crooked Houses: Tales of cursed & haunted dwellings. Egaeus Press, 2021. Hardcover. 351 pages. Second printing. Limited to 250 copies.

Condition: Very Good. Slightly bumped upper spine (see photos). 

Description from the publisher:

Crooked Houses

(second printing)

Alas! Is there a theme in supernatural fiction more prone to cliché and cozy familiarity than the haunted house story?

With this mammoth new anthology, Egaeus Press aims to reclaim that supremely primal tradition, not only from glossy movies, cartoons and television-era ghost hunters, but also from the Victorians, and the great, academic spook story authors of the 20th Century who, by their nature, sought to calibrate, anthropomorphise and provide justification for acts by forces which might hitherto have been considered beyond the scope of human comprehension.

Crooked Houses takes its cue from this earlier age. Though many of the stories presented are set in the modern world, the forces which pervade are primeval, unquantifiable; the stuff of folk-tales, family curses and collective nightmares.

These houses have very deep roots. These houses have teeth.

The book comprises 17 specially written stories. The full table of contents is as follows:

YOUR HOUSE, ANY HOUSE. THAT HOUSE.  Rebecca Kuder
THE SULLIED PANE  Richard Gavin
THE SHEPHERD’S HOUSE  Colin Insole
THE WEST WINDOW  Helen Grant
THE PSYCHOMANTEUM  Steve Duffy
THE CRUMBLIES  Reggie Oliver
THE DEVIL WILL BE AT THE DOOR  David Surface
THE HOUSE OF THE MERE  John Gale
FAIREST OF THEM ALL  Albert Power
MIASMATA  Lynda E. Rucker
THE READERS OF THE SANDS  Mark Valentine
DOLL’S HOUSE  Carly Holmes
AT LOTHESLEY, MONTGOMERYSHIRE, 1910  James Doig
IN CROMER ROAD  Rebecca Lloyd
HOUSE OF SAND  Katherine Haynes
MYTHOLOGY  Jane Jakeman
THE PINER HOUSE  Timothy Granville

Edited by Mark Beech

The book is a lithographically printed, 352 page hardback with colour endpapers; limited to just 250 copies.

ISBN 978-1-916465770.

 

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