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 The Double Eye
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- by William Fryer Harvey
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- Introduction by Richard Dalby
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- William
Fryer Harvey (1885-1937), a Leeds-born Quaker and World
War One hero, is remembered today for a handful of
superlative uncanny and enigmatic tales, notably 'August
Heat', 'Miss Cornelius', 'The Ankardyne Pew' and 'The
Beast with Five Fingers', the latter made into a classic
horror film in 1946 starring Peter Lorre. Harvey was
acclaimed in The Times Literary Supplement
in 1955 as one of the greatest ghost
story writers of the twentieth century alongside M.R.
James and Walter de la Mare.
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- A doctor
of medicine by profession, Harvey drew heavily on the new
psychiatric lore of the irrational subconscious, creating
a lingering uncertainty in the reader's mind. Harvey is a
master of the inconclusive or psychological ghost story,
and his sardonic fantasies often come close to the genius
of Saki. He occasionally attempted a more traditional
ghost story, the earliest example being 'Across the
Moors'.
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- This
volume brings together all thirty of Harvey's uncanny
tales, and his curious Introduction to Moods and Tenses.
The collection is a feast of thrills, chills and uneasy
entertainment for lovers of the supernatural
story.
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- Contents: 'Introduction' by Richard
Dalby, 'Midnight House', 'The Star', 'Across the Moors',
'August Heat', 'Sambo', 'Unwinding', 'Sarah Bennet's
Possession', 'The Tortoise', 'The Beast with Five
Fingers', 'Six to Six-Thirty', 'Blinds', 'Miss
Cornelius', 'The Heart of the Fire', 'Peter Levisham',
'The Clock', 'Ghosts and Jossers', 'The Sleeping Major',
'The Ankardyne Pew', 'The Tool', 'The Devil's Bridge',
'Two and a Third', 'Miss Avenal', 'The Double Eye', 'The
Dabblers', 'Mrs Ormerod', 'The Follower', 'The Man Who
Hated Aspidistras', 'Double Demon', 'The Arm of Mrs
Egan', 'Account Rendered', 'The Flying Out of Mrs Barnard
Hollis', 'The Habeas Corpus Club'.
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-14-1
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- The
Double Eye is a sewn hardback of 303+xvi
pages.
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- Limited
to 350 copies.
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- Price
£32.50/$55 inc. p&p.
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- Reviews:
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- "...it's now possible to
plug another gap in the century's roll-call of top
short-fiction writers". - The
Independent
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- "Harvey
is indeed a master of the uncanny and the supernatural
who is able to deal with a variety of eerie subjects and
to produce solid, compelling fiction, the kind of fiction
which, fortunately, will never go out of fashion.
" - Mario Guslandi, Bookgeeks
Page updated
22nd October 2009
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