Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mary Shelley, the grand dame of the gothic imagination, in this incredible trio of supernatural tales of longing and loss.

Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mary Shelley, the grand dame of the gothic imagination, in this incredible trio of supernatural tales of longing and loss Three supernatural tales of longing and loss from the grand-dame of Gothic fiction, Mary Shelley When a storm drives their boat towards the rocks, a group of sailors is saved by the light of a ruined tower. The locals speak of the Invisible Girl who haunts it - a lost, wandering soul. But the truth is more disturbing, and far more human, than any ghost story. Includes the stories: The Invisible Girl, The Mortal Immortal and The Mourner BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

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ISBN13: 9781529980844
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 112
Edition:
Publication Date: 20 Oct 2026
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x13(L)x0.9(W)100
Weight (gm): 100

Author Biography

Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three.

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