The Terraces of Night: Being the Further Chronicles of the Club of the Round Table
(By Margery Lawrence)
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Many, if not all, of the twelve stories in The Terraces of Night were originally published as stand-alone pieces in popular magazines of the day, and they vary in tone from the macabre and menacing to the gentle and pastoral. Lawrence shows herself to be a master of the supernatural short story, in tales set in such diverse locations as Africa, rural France, Austria, and the English countryside. Her hauntings—involving such objects as a Russian ikon, a crystal snuff-box, a wayside shrine, and an African curse—are memorable and gripping, and her cast of characters is wide-ranging, from a French concierge discussing a mysterious tenant to a young American girl swept up in events which take her out of her safe and secure little world.
The Terraces of Night is in all ways a worthy successor to the author's earlier collection of weird tales. In his introduction, Richard Dalby continues his biography of Margery Lawrence, discussing her marriage to Arthur Towle and her little-known first marriage to an Italian flying ace: a marriage which is still, eight decades later, steeped in secrecy, mystery, and romance.
Contents: 'The Crystal Snuff-Box'; 'Mare Amore'; 'Tinpot Landing'; 'The Portrait of Comtesse X'; 'Nannory House'; 'The Room at the Rosenhaus'; 'The Ikon'; 'The Dream'; 'The Dogs of Pemba'; 'The Strange Case of Miss Cox'; 'The Death Strap'; 'The Shrine at the Cross-Roads'.
Jacket art is by Paul Lowe. Limited to 600 copies.”
