Description
Book SynopsisHandheld Press presents a fearful anthology of forgotten stories to persuade you that a stone hand has been placed on your shoulder when you least expect it, or that something heavy is scraping its way up the stairs. Well-known authors of the uncanny such as Eleanor Scott, Edith Wharton, H P Lovecraft and Arthur Machen are showcased with long-forgotten masters and mistresses of supernatural short stories to frighten the heart into some loud thumpings.
Authors include:
Sabine Baring-Gould, E F Benson, Nellie K Blissett, Bernard Capes, James Causey, Robert W Chambers, N Dennett, W W Fenn, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow, Oliver Onions, E R Punshon, Eleanor Scott, Clark Ashton Smith, and Edith Wharton.
Henry Bartholomew, editor of our Algernon Blackwood anthology, The Unknown (March 2023), has curated this selection and written the Introduction. The Living Stone will be the ninth of the Handheld Weirds: landmark anthologies to redefine the birth of Weird fiction.
Trade Review
‘An unmissable, urgent and era-defining work. ‘ – Gingernuts of Horror, on Women’s Weird
‘Terrifically enjoyable, surreal’ – The Washington Post, on Women’s Weird 2
‘Both subtle and sudden’ – Library Journal, on From the Abyss
‘A distinctive, suspenseful power to haunt’ – Brixton Review of Books, on The Villa and The Vortex
Table of ContentsThe Living Stone
Master Sacristan Eberhart, by Sabine Baring-Gould
The Marble Hands, by W W Fenn
The Mask, by Robert W Chambers
The Stone Rider!, by Nellie K Blissett
A Marble Woman, by W C Morrow
The Duchess at Prayer, by Edith Wharton
Benlian, by Oliver Onions
The Marble Hands, by Bernard Capes
Hypnos, by H P Lovecraft
The Ceremony, by Arthur Machen
At Simmel Acres Farm, by Eleanor Scott
The Maker of Gargoyles, by Clark Ashton Smith
The Menhir, by N Dennett
The Living Stone, E R Punshon
The Statue, by James Causey
Something in Wood, by August Derleth
