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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( Q ) : Quiller Couch, Arthur

• El horror de la escalera : y otros cuentos fantásticos

  Arthur Thomas , Sir Quiller-Couch

  
  
   

• The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales

  Arthur Thomas, Sir Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Paul Lowe

  
  Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - who published much of his fiction under the pseudonym 'Q' - was born in Cornwall in 1863, and the county, its history, and its people were to have a marked influence on his life and writing. After moving to London to pursue a writing career, the author returned to his native county in 1892, and maintained a permanent residence there until his death in 1944.

  He established a reputation as a literary critic and editor, and was also a successful novelist: his final, unfinished novel, CASTLE D'OR, was completed by another writer with strong Cornish connections, Daphne du Maurier. Yet Quiller-Couch was also interested in the unseen and unknown, and this prompted him to turn his hand, time and again, to supernatural stories, which are scattered amongst his collections of short stories.

  S.T. Joshi has now collected together the finest of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's weird tales. They range from the gently humorous drolls 'Widdershins' and 'My Grandfather, Hendry Watty' to the outright horror of 'The Haunted Dragoon' and 'The Legend of Sir Dinar', and include such classics of the supernatural as 'A Pair of Hands', 'The Seventh Man', and Quiller-Couch's best-known ghost story, the haunting 'The Roll-Call of the Reef'. In his introduction, Joshi discusses the author's life and times, providing a fascinating look at this most accomplished and respected writer.

  CONTENTS: Introduction; Psyche; 'Doubles' and Quits; Old Aeson; A Dark Mirror; The Magic Shadow; The Haunted Dragoon; A Blue Pantomime; The Roll-Call of the Reef; My Grandfather, Hendry Watty; Widdershins; The Legend of Sir Dinar; Oceanus; The Seventh Man; The Room of Mirrors; A Pair of Hands; The Lady of the Ship; The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem; The Laird's Luck; Phoebus on Halzaphron; The Haunted Yacht; John and the Ghosts; The Talking Ships; The Horror on the Stair; The Bend of the Road; Mutual Exchange, Limited; Not Here, O Apollo!

  
   

• Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts

  Arthur Thomas, Sir Quiller-Couch

  
  Yes; you shall have the whole tale. The first effect of the news of Harry¿s death in October last was simply to stun me. You may remember how once, years ago when we were children, we rode home together across the old Racecourse after a long day¿s skating, our skates swinging at our saddle-bows; how Harry challenged us to a gallop; and how, midway, the roan mare slipped down neck over crop on the frozen turf and hurled me clean against the face of a stone dyke.