New Release October 2018 – The Invisible Eye

New Release October 2018 – The Invisible Eye

Mar 25, 2018 | Emile Erckmann, Erckmann-Chatrian, Ghost Story, HarperCollins, Hugh Lamb, Louis Alexandre Chatrian, News, Publications | 2 comments

HarperCollins have announced a new trilogy of Hugh Lamb anthologies for 2018. Following the announcement of new editions of both Ghosts in the House and Out of the Dark, we can also reveal that the Collins Chillers series will include a new release of Hugh’s The Invisible Eye. Featuring collected tales by Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian, this new paperback and kindle edition is already available for pre-order on Amazon. This will mark the first time that Erckmann-Chatrian have been available in a paperback edition.

From the publisher:

‘I should feel myself ungrateful if I did not pay a tribute to the supernatural tales of Erckmann–Chatrian. The blend of French with German in them, comparable to the French-Irish blend in Le Fanu, has produced some quite first-rate romances of this kind . . . [and] have for years delighted and alarmed me. It is high time that they were made more accessible than they are.’—M. R. JAMES

Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian began their writing partnership in the 1840s and continued working together until the year before Chatrian’s death in 1890. At the height of their powers they were known as ‘the twins’, and their works proved popular translated into English. After their deaths, however, they slipped into obscurity; and apart from the odd tale reprinted in anthologies, their work has remained difficult to find and to appreciate.

In The Invisible Eye, veteran horror anthologist Hugh Lamb has collected together the finest weird tales by Erckmann–Chatrian. The world of which they wrote has long since vanished: a world of noblemen and peasants, enchanted castles and mysterious woods, haunted by witches, monsters, curses and spells. It is a world brought to life by the vivid imagination of these authors and praised by successors including M.R. James and H. P. Lovecraft. With an introduction by Hugh Lamb, and in paperback for the first time, this collection will transport the reader to the darkest depths of the nineteenth century: a time when anything could happen – and occasionally did.

2 Comments

  1. Andy Troy

    I’m having a hard time finding the table of contents for this volume online. Do you have a list of the Erckmann-Chatrian stories included herein? Does this 2018 edition contain the same stories as the 2002 Ash Tree Press version? I see it retains Lamb’s introduction from the latter.

    Reply
    • Hugh Lamb Online

      Hi, Andy.

      You can find the contents for the book here. Yes, it is the same as the 2002 edition.

      Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply

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