In the Dark: Tales of Terror by E. Nesbit. E. Nesbit

      

      IN THE DARK

      E. Nesbit

       Edited, with an Introduction, by

      HUGH LAMB

       Copyright

      HarperCollinsPublishers

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       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Equation 1988

      Selection, Introduction, and Notes © Hugh Lamb 2017

      Cover design by Mike Topping © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017

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      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008249014

      Ebook Edition © September 2017 ISBN: 9780008249021

      Version: 2017-08-10

       Dedication

       To the beautiful Marisol – my partner and guardian angel.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Introduction

       Man-Size in Marble

       Uncle Abraham’s Romance

       From the Dead

       The Haunted Inheritance

       The Three Drugs

      

       The Letter in Brown Ink

      

       The Violet Car

      

       John Charrington’s Wedding

      

       No. 17

      

       The Pavilion

      

       The House of Silence

      

       The Mystery of the Semi-Detached

      

       In the Dark

      

       The Head

      

       The Ebony Frame

      

       Hurst of Hurstcote

      

       The Five Senses

      

       The Haunted House

      

       The Shadow

      

       The Detective

      

       The Power of Darkness

      

       Bibliography

      

       Acknowledgements

      

       About the Publisher

       INTRODUCTION

      There can be few children over the past hundred years who have never encountered the works of E. Nesbit. Even nowadays, in spite of the distractions of playstations and the Internet, her children’s stories entertain and enchant young readers. Lionel Jeffries’s 1972 film of The Railway Children (1906) is a perennial television favourite.

      At the same time, it is almost certain that very few adult readers know of, or have read,