What Was It? Fitz James O'Brien Our mission is to provide the world with beautiful, accessible, illuminating editions of classic horror fiction, introducing these chilling gems to new generations, making them gorgeously illustrated and giving you critical, historical, and artistic insights with every single story. This is one of those books. Building on the weird tales of Hoffmann and Poe, Fitz-James O'Brien is one of horror and fantasy literature's best hidden secrets. His astonishingly original forays into speculative ...
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What Was It? Fitz James O'Brien Our mission is to provide the world with beautiful, accessible, illuminating editions of classic horror fiction, introducing these chilling gems to new generations, making them gorgeously illustrated and giving you critical, historical, and artistic insights with every single story. This is one of those books. Building on the weird tales of Hoffmann and Poe, Fitz-James O'Brien is one of horror and fantasy literature's best hidden secrets. His astonishingly original forays into speculative fiction include an army of possessed Christmas dolls, the sudden and short-lived manifestation of an invisible monster, a disappearing room possessed by cannibal spirits, a murderous scientist's discovery of a microscopic woman in a drop of water, a child's symbiotic relationship to a grave, and a haunted gallows-tree. This unique and unrivalled edition of O'Brien's best weird tales, fantasies, and mysteries includes critical introductions to each story, contextual information, and chilling illustrations that breathe life into O'Brien's Gothic visions and bizarre fantasias. TALES INCLUDED in this ANNOTATED EDITION: The Pot of Tulips - The Bohemian - The Dragon Fang - The Demon of the Gibbet - The Diamond Lens - The Wondersmith - Jubal the Ringer - The Lost Room - The Golden Ingot - The Ghosts - What Was It? - The Child Who Loved a Grave We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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