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Phantoms (1885) is a classic study of a haunting, in which the
narrator refuses to admit that the apparitions from which he suffers can
be anything but hallucinations, but then ties himself in knots trying
to explain them in terms of his own psychology, which he claims unconvincingly
to be free from guilt. The story is one of the most interesting and elaborate
19th century developments of the theme of an ambiguous haunting, notable
for its acidic artistry.
Also included in this collection are several darkly ironic contes cruels,
remarkable for their relentless quest for originality, often striking
in the unusual twists that give an extra turn of the screw to the psychological
demolition of their protagonists, and a novella, My Interment (1893),
which develops one of the classic motifs of horror fiction, ostensibly
in a thoroughly naturalistic fashion.
CONTENTS:
Les Fantômes (1885)
Mon Enterrement (1893)
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.
Cover by Phil Cohen
Published by Black Coat Press in January 2017
ISBN: 978-1-61227-586-4
