Withnail Books of Penrith, Cumbria, have just announced pre-orders for the latest in their series of limited edition chapbooks of rare literary works. This offers two lost tales: one, 'The Ghost of the Private Theatricals', is attributed to Mary Shelley and has been published before by the press in an edition of only 100 copies; the other, newly issued, is 'Gibbet Hill', a scarce story by Bram Stoker.
'The Ghost of the Private Theatricals' is described as "a chilling short story, originally printed in the literary annual The Keepsake, credited simply to 'M.S.' ", and is accompanied by an afterword by Adam Newell presenting the case that this may be Mary Shelley.
'Gibbet Hill' is 'an eerie short story by Bram
Stoker, which was originally published in an Irish newspaper in 1890,
but then forgotten until its recent rediscovery' by amateur researcher Brian Cleary in the National Library of Ireland.
Both chapbooks are in a limited edition of 250 copies on high quality stock and are accompanied by prints of scenes by J.M.W. Turner of the places that may have inspired the stories.
Publication is scheduled for week commencing 28 April, but orders are accepted now. Withnail's issues are not usually around for very long.
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