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Man-Size in Marble and Other Grim Tales

✍️ Stephen Carver
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🏛 Wordsworth Editions 📅 2025 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781840229059

📝 Description: Man-Size in Marble and Other Grim Tales

Nesbit's tales are short, sharp shockers, her delivery vivid, eerie, and unsettling. She wrote about what scared her: ghosts, zombies, 'things that walk'; madness, murder, and premature burial.

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Stephen Carver's supernatural collection draws readers into a chilling realm where the ordinary yields to creeping dread. Exploring what truly terrifies—from restless spirits and shambling corpses to the psychological terror of madness and premature burial—these short tales deliver sharp, eerie shocks. The prose maintains a vivid, unsettling atmosphere that captures the classic dread of things that walk in the dark. It is an ideal pick for enthusiasts of traditional ghost stories and macabre fiction who appreciate lean, atmospheric storytelling that lingers long after the final page.
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Stephen Carver's supernatural collection draws readers into a chilling realm where the ordinary yields to creeping dread. Exploring what truly terrifies—from restless spirits and shambling corpses to the psychological terror of madness and premature burial—these short tales deliver sharp, eerie shocks. The prose maintains a vivid, unsettling atmosphere that captures the classic dread of things that walk in the dark. It is an ideal pick for enthusiasts of traditional ghost stories and macabre fiction who appreciate lean, atmospheric storytelling that lingers long after the final page.

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