Handheld Press presents a fearful anthology of forgotten stories to persuade you that a stone hand has been placed on your shoulder when you least expect it, or that something heavy is scraping its way up the stairs. Well-known authors of the uncanny such as Eleanor Scott, Edith Wharton, H P Lovecraft and Arthur Machen are showcased with long-forgotten masters and mistresses of supernatural short stories to frighten the heart into some loud thumpings.
Authors include:
Sabine Baring-Gould, Nellie K Blissett, Bernard Capes, James Causey, Robert W Chambers, N Dennett, August Derleth, W W Fenn, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow, Oliver Onions, E R Punshon, Eleanor Scott, Clark Ashton Smith, and Edith Wharton.
Henry Bartholomew, editor of our Algernon Blackwood anthology, The Unknown (March 2023), has curated this selectio