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The Jewelled Hand and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre

The Jewelled Hand and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre

Doig, James
Sparrow, Lionel

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ISBN10: 1954321643
ISBN13: 9781954321649
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Totally forgotten today, Australian pulp writer Lionel Sparrow (1867-1936) was a prolific contributor of Gothic and horror tales to late-Victorian Australian newspapers and magazines. For this new volume, editor James Doig has collected 24 rare tales, originally published between 1887 and 1910. The title story, The Jewelled Hand (1887), is a Grand Guignol-style horror tale in which the narrator's obsession over proving whether or not the mind retains consciousness after decapitation leads to a gruesome experiment. In The Purple Death, a jealous suitor exacts vengeance on his hated rival by imprisoning him in a room where everything-from the walls and floor to his clothes and food-is purple, a strange and decadent torture intended to drive his victim slowly mad. The Vengeance of the Dead is an unusual vampire story in which the narrator's sisters fall ill and seem to be slowly wasting away, the victims of a dead occultist whose evil spirit prays on the living for sustenance.

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