Night Frights

For most readers, the name Leslie Poles Hartley is associated with the remarkable novel The Go-Between, but few know that he began his career as a writer of macabre stories, some of which can confidently be called masterpieces of British mysticism of the 20th century. A vengeful ghost that consumes its victims from within, dinner with a corpse, a monster living on a secluded island… The stories included in this collection fall into various directions of mysticism and horror – traditional and surrealistic, serious and ironic, incorporating elements of fantasy and folklore tales about ghosts. However, the secret of Hartley's works' appeal is quite simple: he brings to light the most profound fears, studies them, shows them to the reader, and then returns them back to the darkness.