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The Phial of Dread and Other Stories (en Inglés)
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (Autor)
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The Phial of Dread and Other Stories (en Inglés) - Fitz Hugh Ludlow
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A mysterious phial binds terror to guilt in a nineteenth-century world where physical experience repeatedly touches the spiritual. Edgar Sands, a chemist concealed in a New York boarding house, cannot escape the object associated with Charlotte Lynde or the questions it raises. His predicament opens a collection in which Gothic fiction meets psychological suspense, and the supernatural emerges through troubled attachments, uncertain perceptions and the enduring claims of love and loss. Bereavement assumes an unusual form in the story of a taxidermist and museum proprietor whose experiences range across continents and the sea. His profession brings preservation into close contact with attachment, while speculative ideas of spiritual continuity complicate the boundary between bodily absence and continued presence. Rather than treating grief as a single emotion, the story places it beside compassion and devotion, allowing material objects and metaphysical possibilities to occupy the same imaginative space. Sensory perception becomes equally compelling in the final story, where a teacher's work with a deaf-mute student brings sign language, music education and colour into a searching exploration of communication. Across all three linked stories, artistic expression and disability broaden the collection's Gothic concerns beyond fear alone, while recurring tensions between the physical and spiritual give each narrative a distinct yet connected focus. These nineteenth-century short stories unite dread, bereavement and speculative thought without reducing their mysteries to simple explanations. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Read more
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