A Phantom Lover A Fantasy Or Oke Of Okehurst
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A Phantom Lover A Fantasy Or Oke Of Okehurst
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-16
A Phantom Lover A Fantasy Or Oke Of Okehurst written by Vernon Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-16 with categories.
"Only the past could own her heart, only the dead could quench her desire." SHADOW HOUSE PUBLISHING presents the most terrifying love story ever told...a novel of death, desire, and damnation by a 19th century macabre feminist and supernatural fiction legend... A PHANTOM LOVER: A FANTASY or OKE OF OKEHURST, by VERNON LEE, is a novel of sin, sensuality, and the supernatural. This horrific romance of evil from the tragic past returns to haunt a new generation. In this authoritative (and affordable) special edition, Lee's use of psychological terror, obsession, and ambiguity is as refined as Henry James and captures the sublime beauty of gothic horror. Vernon Lee (pseudonym for Violet Paget) was a femme fatale of the Decadent aesthetic movement, a lesbian art critic who revealed the subversive nature of reality and the malignant power of history with scathing social criticism. This novella is her most powerful achievement. A loving but ineffectual husband, a narcissistic wife who taunts him with the dead, and a lost spirit form the weirdest love triangle in literature. Alice Oke is selfish, self-indulgent, and fancies herself the reincarnation of a tragic ancestress who murdered her paramour. Is Alice delusional or will her wedding bed become a grave? Supernatural fiction author and critic WILLIAM P. SIMMONS edits and introduces the fourth volume in Shadow House Publishing's HORROR HALL OF FAME NOVELLAS series. This atmospheric, richly layered weird tale features as a supplement "Faustus and Helena", a vintage essay on art and the supernatural that reflects Vernon Lee's theories regarding supernatural fiction. HORROR HALL OF FAME NOVELLAS , VOLUME FOUR TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction A Phantom Lover: A Fantasy or Oke of Okehurst "Faustus and Helena" __________ About the Editor: William P. Simmons is a supernatural fiction author, critic, & journalist. Seven of his stories earned Honorable Mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror. By Reason of Darkness was praised by Publisher's Weekly, All Hallows & Cemetery Dance. Graham Masterton, Hugh B. Cave & T.M. Wright endorsed his fiction. He has interviewed such authors as Richard Matheson, F. Paul Wilson & Caitlin Kiernan. HORROR HALL OF FAME NOVELLAS Series: "Horror hundreds of years in the making!" This series presents classic and rare supernatural, horror, and weird novellas that have been neglected due to major publisher's commercial disdain for the form. SHADOW HOUSE PUBLISHING preserves our horror heritage with authoritative and affordable special editions of supernatural literature.
Oke Of Okehurst Or A Phantom Lover
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2016-03-10
Oke Of Okehurst Or A Phantom Lover written by Vernon Lee and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Fiction categories.
This vintage book contains Vernon Lee's 1890 supernatural horror novel, “Oke of Okehurst - Or, the Phantom Lover”. “Vernon Lee” was the pen name of British author Violet Paget (1856–1935). Paget was a renowned author of popular supernatural fiction and was a prolific writer of books on the subject of aesthetics. This fantastic volume is highly recommended for lovers of spooky and chilling literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. Other notable works by this author include: “The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative” (1883), “The Countess of Albany” (1884), and “Miss Brown” (1884). Fantasy and Horror Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.
A Phantom Lover
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 1886
A Phantom Lover written by Vernon Lee and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Fiction categories.
A Phantom Lover
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-05
A Phantom Lover written by Vernon Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-05 with categories.
Gradually the embers grew paler; the figures in the tapestry more shadowy; the columned and curtained bed loomed out vaguer; the room seemed to fill with greyness; and my eyes wandered to the mullioned bow-window, beyond whose panes, between whose heavy stonework, stretched a greyish-brown expanse of sore and sodden park grass, dotted with big oaks; while far off, behind a jagged fringe of dark Scotch firs, the wet sky was suffused with the blood-red of the sunset... "Miss Violet Paget, whose nom-de-plume is Vernon Lee, has a strange genius, or, perhaps, one would rather say a genius for the strange and the horrible that sometimes falls little short of being grotesque. She has the divination that sees the possible hidden undercurrents of the tragedy of life. It may not improbably be the verdict of the future that Vernon Lee at the present time is not receiving anything like the recognition due her marvelous power." -The Literary News "Probably the best shilling story since 'Dr. Jekyll.' It is short; it is startling....One is fascinated, and offended, and finally appalled." -St. James Gazette "Vernon Lee has the enviable faculty of investing each and all her works with the charm of brilliant originality. Thus this 'fantastic story' has a grace and a weird pathos that distinguish it from other tales." -Morning Post "Everything Vernon Lee writes bears the stamp of genius." -Manchester Examiner "Her work has always disclosed a morbid tendency, and this story follows in the line of its predecessors. It is extremely well told, skillfully planned to produce and deep and definite impression by suggestion rather than by direct statement, and it is very interesting. As a psychological study it is full of acuteness and power." -The Book Buyer "Few persons besides the gifted an original author of 'Euphorion' and 'Baldwin' would have thought out this ingenious, weird, uncomfortable, psychological story. It is of about the compass of a magazine article, though made into a book by itself. It is a painter's narrative of what befell him in a fine old English country house while he was at work on the portrait of its mistress, Mrs. Oke. There had been a Mrs. Oke of Okehurst, centuries before, and her portrait was now hanging on the walls. That Mrs. Oke had had a lover, Christopher Lovelock, and Lovelock, so tradition ran, had been murdered by his mistress and her husband. The present Mrs. Oke is pleased to personate the former Mrs. Oke by means of dress and all other means in her powre, and in time teases her adoring husband into the hallucination that she is pursued by a phantom Lovelock lover as her namesake was in reality of old. Fired by this hallucination into a frenzy of jealous hatred, he levels his pistol at the supposed phantom and shoots his wife dead. The verdict was 'momentary madness.' This is Vernon Lee's story of it." -The Literary World "Whatever Vernon Lee attempts to do, she does with great order; she writes admirably....In 'A Phantom Love,' which is a hint, not a story, a dream not a reality, a mere piece of brilliant 'impressionist' work - her peculiar powers appear to excellent advantage....Rich in suggestion and color, she defines a little drama of love and jealousy, which belongs partly to this generation and in part is the revival of an old tragedy played out two centuries ago....The fantasy becomes credible in the rich, hazy, unhealthy atmosphere the author surrounds her actors with, as they move languidly and picturesquely through the dim, rich, storied rooms. The little book is the artistic product of very fine powers." -The American
A Phantom Lover
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2017-03-10
A Phantom Lover written by Vernon Lee and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-10 with Fiction categories.
Do you remember my telling you, one afternoon that you sat upon the hearthstool at Florence, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst? You thought it a fantastic tale, you lover of fantastic things, and urged me to write it out at once, although I protested that, in such matters, to write is to exorcise, to dispel the charm; and that printers' ink chases away the ghosts that may pleasantly haunt us, as efficaciously as gallons of holy water. But if, as I suspect, you will now put down any charm that story may have possessed to the way in which we had been working ourselves up, that firelight evening, with all manner of fantastic stuff-if, as I fear, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst will strike you as stale and unprofitable-the sight of this little book will serve at least to remind you, in the middle of your Russian summer, that there is such a season as winter, such a place as Florence, and such a person as your friend, VERNON LEE
Hauntings
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Hauntings written by Vernon Lee and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Fiction categories.
Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. Lee's most famous work, “Hauntings” (1890) is a fantastic collection of chilling ghost and supernatural stories, including “Amour Dure”, “Dionea”, “Oke of Okehurst”, and “A Wicked Voice”. Classic macabre tales not to be missed by fans of frightening fiction. Other notable works by this author include: “The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative” (1883), “The Countess of Albany” (1884), and “Miss Brown” (1884). Fantasy and Horror Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.
The Phantom Lover
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Author : Ruby Mildred Ayres
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
The Phantom Lover written by Ruby Mildred Ayres and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with categories.
Vernon Lee
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Author : Vineta Colby
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2003
Vernon Lee written by Vineta Colby and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In her last years she watched with dismay the emergence of fascism.".
Aesthetic Afterlives
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Author : Andrew Eastham
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-06
Aesthetic Afterlives written by Andrew Eastham and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
An original theoretical reading of the emergence of British literary modernity, beginning with Victorian Aestheticism and tracing its afterlives into the 21st Century. >
Hauntings And Other Fantastic Tales
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2006-04-11
Hauntings And Other Fantastic Tales written by Vernon Lee and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-11 with Fiction categories.
Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, “My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.” First published in 1890, Lee’s most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others, enables readers to consider Lee’s work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee’s predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee’s brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes.