THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 1997 edited by Jack Adrian. Ashcroft, BC, Canada; Ash-Tree Press; 1997. 1st edition hardcover. This, the first of a projected series of annual volumes, scheduled to appear in the period between Halloween and Christmas each year, presents four weird stories by women writers whose supernatural output is small. The series as a whole will follow this pattern: small, quality supernatural tales by those who are not necessarily associated with writing in the genre. For this first volume, Jack Adrian has gathered together tales by Patricia Wentworth, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Carola Oman, and Mollie Panter Downes. The result is a pleasing collection of supernatural tales of the quality you have come to associate with an Ash-Tree Press production. Contents: Patricia Wentworth: ‘A Wedding Day’; Jessie Douglas Kerruish: ‘The Swaying Vision’; Carola Oman: ‘The Visitor’; Mollie Panter-Downes: ‘The House of the Laburnums’. Jacket art by Rob Suggs. Limited to 500 copies. Fine in fine dj. |