Hauntings
and Other Stories
$28.04
- Paperback
198 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2026
Summary
Bewitching ghost stories from seminal short story writer Vernon Lee, beautifully captured in the Smith & Taylor Classics series.
“My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts, of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own…”
Shipwrecked before a remote Italian coastal village, a young girl discovers the ability to command love and incite madness; a Polish historian is drawn to the enigmatic allu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781961884663 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1961884666 |
| Author: | Vernon Lee, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Allison Miriam Smith, Brandon Taylor |
| Publisher: | Unnamed Press |
| Imprint: | Smith &Taylor Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 198 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Smith & Taylor Classics |
Vernon Lee
Vernon Lee (1856-1935)—the pen name of the writer Violet Paget—was a travel writer, novelist, musician, and critic. Primarily remembered today for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics, she spent most of her life in Florence, Italy, where she cultivated friendships with artists such as Telemaco Signorini, Edith Wharton, and Henry James. One of the first to bring the concept of Einfühlung, or empathy, into English criticism, she was an outspoken follower of Walter Pater’s aestheticism and vocal pacifist until her death in 1935.
Gretchen Felker-Martin is a Massachusetts-based bestselling horror author and film critic. Her debut novel, Manhunt, was named the #1 Best Book of 2022 by Vulture, and was one of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 by Esquire, Library Journal, and Paste. Her sophomore novel, Cuckoo, debuted on the USA Today bestseller list.
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. Her queer horror novelette Helen House was named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle, an assistant fiction editor at Foglifter, and the former managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and others. Some of her culture writing can be found in The Cut, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Refinery29, and Vice, and she previously worked as a restaurant reporter for Eater NY. She was a 2023-2024 Tin House Reading Fellow and a 2023 Lambda writer in residence. Her fiction will be featured in the upcoming anthology Be Gay, Do Crime, out from Dzanc Books in 2025.
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