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Hands and Feet: Ghastly, Spectral, and Foreboding Limbs and Digits in Classic Speculative Fiction
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ISBN13: 9781616465827
Publisher: Coachwhip Publications
Published: Apr 8 2024
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This anthology collects a varied group of nineteen short stories where feet, hands, fingers, or toes make their mark: supernatural, psychological, or physical. Whether a haunting hand, a missing toe, a lost foot, or a malevolent finger, limbs and digits exert their influence in death as well as life.
The stories include: The Spectre Hand (Anonymous), The Severed Hand (Wilhelm Hauff), The Mummy's Foot (Théophile Gautier), Some Odd Facts about the Tiled House, Being an Authentic Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu), Mrs. Corbet's Amputated Toe (Alexander Leighton), The Flayed Hand (Guy De Maupassant), The Hand (Guy de Maupassant), Let Loose (Mary Cholmondeley), The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (Ambrose Bierce), The Haunted Hand (Henry Seton Merriman), The Skeleton Hand (Agnes Macleod), The Story of the Brown Hand (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), The Monkey's Paw (W. W. Jacobs), The Mummy Hand: A Story of Christmas Eve (Adeline Sergeant), A Dead Finger (Sabine Baring-Gould), The Beast with Five Fingers (W. F. Harvey), The Call of the Hand (Louis Golding), The Hand (Theodore Dreiser), The Hand of Saint Ury (Gordon MacCreagh).
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