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The Cosy Room and Other Stories

The Cosy Room and Other Stories

James Machin
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The Cosy Room and Other Stories is a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth in 1936. As well as exhuming some very early tales published in the first half of the 1890s, Gawsworth included Machen’s decadent prose poems from Ornaments in Jade, and later work commissioned by Lady Cynthia Asquith for collec¬tions such as The Ghost Book and Shudders .

Among other curious items, The Cosy Room collected ‘The Islington Mystery’, an account of the likely murder of a taxidermist’s wife by her husband that, as James Machin writes in his Introduction, ‘wouldn’t be out of place in Borges’s A Universal History of Infamy.’ But the highlight of the collection is ‘N’, the only original contribu¬tion to The Cosy Room, and perhaps the most interesting and thought-provoking story of Arthur Machen’s later career. ‘ “N” … is a distillation of many ideas he had previously explored, but they are perhaps more perfectly expressed in this tale than in any other.”
Pages
206
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Tartarus Press
Release
February 21, 2017

The Cosy Room and Other Stories

James Machin
3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The Cosy Room and Other Stories is a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth in 1936. As well as exhuming some very early tales published in the first half of the 1890s, Gawsworth included Machen’s decadent prose poems from Ornaments in Jade, and later work commissioned by Lady Cynthia Asquith for collec¬tions such as The Ghost Book and Shudders .

Among other curious items, The Cosy Room collected ‘The Islington Mystery’, an account of the likely murder of a taxidermist’s wife by her husband that, as James Machin writes in his Introduction, ‘wouldn’t be out of place in Borges’s A Universal History of Infamy.’ But the highlight of the collection is ‘N’, the only original contribu¬tion to The Cosy Room, and perhaps the most interesting and thought-provoking story of Arthur Machen’s later career. ‘ “N” … is a distillation of many ideas he had previously explored, but they are perhaps more perfectly expressed in this tale than in any other.”
Pages
206
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Tartarus Press
Release
February 21, 2017

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