Lost Estates
Published on 8. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-1-78380-782-6 (ISBN)
Description
"I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the way books." - S. T. Coleridge (1796)
The twelve stories in Lost Estates offer antiquarian mysteries, book-collecting adventures, and otherworldly encounters. Mark Valentine's amiable scholars and wanderers explore lonely and mysterious landscapes, places of legend, and secret history. Though drawing on the traditions of English supernatural fiction, these stories also strike out into unusual terrain.
Mark Valentine's short stories have been selected for the Ghosts & Scholars books edited by Rosemary Pardoe, Best British Short Stories edited by Nicholas Royle, Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones, The Mammoth Books of Ghost Stories edited by Richard Dalby, and many other anthologies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin 6
Ireland
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
261 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78380-782-6 (9781783807826)
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Mark Valentine is originally from Northampton but now lives in Yorkshire near the Leeds-Liverpool canal. He likes second-hand bookshops, vegan food, overgrown gardens, stationery shops and village hall flea markets. As well as his fiction, his other books include studies of Arthur Machen and Sarban, and four volumes of essays on book-collecting.