- Three Miles Up
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- by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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- With an
Introduction by Glen Cavaliero
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- ‘. . .
Singularly pure examples of their kind.’ So writes Glen
Cavaliero of these strange stories by Elizabeth Jane
Howard. Born in 1923, the author is best known for her
skilfully-crafted novels of upper middle-class English
life. Three of the four stories collected together here
for the first time, ‘Three Miles Up’, ‘Perfect Love’ and
‘Left Luggage’, initially appeared alongside three
stories by Robert Aickman in that touchstone of
twentieth-century uncanny fiction, We Are for the
Dark (1951), the year after Howard’s first
book, The Beautiful Visit (1950), had won
the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. The fourth and
most recently written story, ‘Mr Wrong’, a chilling and
thoroughly contemporary tour-de-force, was the title
story in a collection of Howard’s short fiction published
in 1975.
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- All four
stories, which represent the sum of Elizabeth Jane
Howard’s strange short fiction, have the power to shock,
thrill and puzzle in equal measure, and display the
‘design, coherence [and] deliberate artistry’, for which
she is justly celebrated.
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- Contains: Three Miles Up, Perfect Love,
Left Luggage, Mr Wrong.
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- Three
Miles Up is a sewn hardback book of 216+xii
pages.
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- Price
£25.00/$45 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN
9781872621753
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Reviews:
- "Miss Howard has a gift for
tilting our sense of reality so gradually
that we have slid into the strange and
mysterious almost before we are aware . . . "
- The
Guardian
- "Three Miles
Up is a superb little volume:
it may only contain four stories, but every
one is a highly polished gem, and the
introduction by Glen Cavaliero is thoughtful
and well-written. The quality of the book
production is, needless to say, immaculate."
- Reggie Oliver,
All Hallows
"Best remembered for mainstream
novels of the middle class - realistic works
which nevertheless hint of cosmic uneasiness -
Howard's rare forays into the supernatural
resulted in chilling expressions of terror and
awe. Favoring painful themes of cultural
displacement and alienation in an apathetic
world . . . this is ghost fiction as it should
be!" - Hellnotes
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