Product Description

May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her Uncanny Stories (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of Freud and Einstein. The stories shock, enthral, delight and unsettle. Two lovers are doomed to repeat their empty affair for the rest of eternity... A female telepath is forced to face the consequences of her actions... The victim of a violent murder has the last laugh on his assailant... An amateur philosopher discovers that there is more to Heaven than meets the eye. Specially included in this volume is The Intercessor (1911), Sinclair's powerful story of childhood and abandoned love, a tale whose intensity compares with that of the Brontës.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121910 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Part of Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural series, featuring classic spine chilling tales, some previously unavailable for many years.

Customer Reviews

Horror Literature
Beware, you are wondering into the realms of literature with this book, as the scholarly introduction shows (don't read before the stories). Warning aside, I can say that I have not read a collection like it- modern, sensitive and disturbing. A particular theme is the cruelties the living can inflict on the dead,which might seems bizare, but read "The Token" for example and you will understand. "The Victim" has a killer twist at the end which only strengthens what has gone before.
Only complaint? The naff cover illustration which would suit another, lesser book.

Fabulous, Powerful, Beautiful Tales
A really excellent read. Stories just the right length to pack in a powerful and perfect mix of romantic, gothic fiction. A readable introduction helps to set the tales in context too. I enjoyed these beautiful, 'uncanny' stories that had me re-thinking and re-reading them time and again.

Not much chilling of the spine, here
Innovative, as claimed by the publisher, these stories may have been (which is possibly why they seemed somewhat dated to me!),or literature with a capital L, as suggested by a previous reviewer. But if you are looking for ghost stories to be spoken of in the same breath as some of those of M R James, Walter de la Mare and Oliver Onions, my belief is that you will be disappointed by May Sinclair, as represented in this Wordsworth volume.

I ought, I suppose, to cite instances to support my contention but, to be quite honest, although it is only a year or two since I read the collection, I can remember virtually nothing of it, so lttle impression did it make on me.