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The Ghost Ship

Richard Middleton

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Middleton himself was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .When the last day came that I had feared most of all, I succeeded in saying goodbye to the people at the house where I had stopped, and in making the mournful train journey home without disgracing myself. It seemed as though a merciful stupor had dulled my senses to a mute acceptance of my purgatory. I slept in the train, and arrived home so sleepy that I was allowed to go straight to bed without comment. For once my body dominated my mind, and I slipped between the sheets in an ecstasy of fatigue and fell asleep immediately.

Something of this rare mood lingered with me in the morning, and it was not until I reached the Meat Market that I realised the extent of my misfortune. I saw the greasy, red-faced men with their hands and aprons stained with blood. I saw the hideous carcases of animals, the masses of entrails, the heaps of repulsive hides; but most clearly of all I saw an ugly sad little boy with a satchel of books on his back set down in the m. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Fun folk ghost story.

Este libro de relatos lo he disfrutado plenamente, el autor excelente, lo triste es que no es muy conocido ni pudo escribir demasiado porque se quito la vida a los 29 años. El título invita a una lectura aciaga, sin embargo las narraciones son sorprendentes, algunas hasta irrisorias.: Un buque que a

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3'5/5

Este pequeño libro recopila historias de lo más variadas y, en mi opinión, de muy distinta calidad. Con unos relatos te sumergías por completo, sentías escalofríos y palpabas esa tristeza; mientras que en otros pasabas por ellos sin pena ni gloria.

Valorando los relatos por separado he puesto m

Richard Middleton (1882-1911) fue un escritor de cuentos, ensayista y poeta inglés, un escritor maldito, un escritor olvidado, que empezó a ser reconocido, como tantos otros de los que apenas sabemos nada, tras su fallecimiento. Middleton fue el típico personaje bohemio y romántico, que apenas subsi

Hace no demasiado tiempo tuve la ocasión de leer en un recopilatorio de historias góticas, "The bird in the garden" de Richard Middleton. Quedé tan sorprendido por el hallazgo que en seguida adquirí este volúmen editado por Valdemar, el único que he tenido su autor en España.

Middleton es uno de esos

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