Vernon Lee

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers (eBook, ePUB)

Excursions into Fantasy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

He lusts and kills in equal measure.

The brutal Don Juan - an unrepentant sinner - makes a pact with the Virgin of the Seven Daggers. He promises to forever proclaim her supreme beauty and asks that in return she save him from damnation.

Emboldened by the deal and driven by insatiable greed, he embarks on a necromantic journey to an enchanted palace beneath the Alhambra. In an orgy of beasts, demons and slumbering infantas Don Juan is called upon to uphold his side of the bargain and in doing so lose everything his lustful heart desires.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141900179
• Artikelnr.: 38130022

Autorenporträt

Aaron Worth is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University who has previously edited The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (2019) by Arthur Machen and Green Tea and Other Weird Tales (2020) by Sheridan Le Fanu for Oxford World's Classics. His own horror fiction has appeared in publications including Cemetery Dance Magazine and Vastarien.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Winthrop's Adventure
Oke of Okehurst; or, the Phantom Lover
Amour Dure
Dionea
A Wicked Voice
The Legend of Madame Krasinska
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers
Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady
The Doll
Marsyas in Flanders
Appendix I: Faustus and Helena
Appendix II: Preface to Hauntings
Explanatory Notes