![]() There is, for its time, a slightly old-fashioned feel to his prose, but this means it will appeal greatly to admirers of the late nineteenth century and Edwardian classics. ![]() The attention to atmosphere and to a distinguished style that he must have learnt from these past masters is everywhere evident in his work. Wells and Walter de la Mare, and we know he also read John Buchan, Arthur Machen and Lord Dunsany, among others. Sarban specifically acknowledged the influence of H.G. Written in the 1940s and 1950s, the stories have all the qualities of the earlier, classic age of the uncanny in literature. ![]() ![]() These three highly original volumes of supernatural fiction are notable for several reasons. Tartarus Press have just announced new editions of The Sound of His Horn and Other Stories (first published 1952) and The Doll-Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny (1953) by ‘Sarban’, joining a third title, Ringstones and Other Curious Tales (1951) already available. ![]()
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