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Month: June 2025

Summer Reading with the Classics: Timeless Stories for Long Days

There’s something about summer that invites us to slow down and immerse ourselves in a good book. Whether you’re reading on a sun-dappled terrace, stretched out on the beach, or curled up on a rainy afternoon, the season is ripe for literary exploration. And what better companions than the classics? At Wordsworth Editions, we believe… Read More

Between Two Worlds: The Weird Tales of Arthur Machen

In his seminal 1927 essay ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’, an overview of the genre from the folk tales of primitive man to the pulp authors of his own day, H.P. Lovecraft named only four living authors as true ‘Masters of Horror’. These were Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M.R. James, and Arthur Machen. And Machen’s major… Read More

The Shadowy World of Edith Nesbit

Denise Hanrahan Wells looks the supernatural short stories of Edith Nesbit, now available in our new publication Man-size in Marble and Other Grim Tales The Shadowy World of Edith Nesbit Chances are, many readers know Edith Nesbit from her creation of courageous Bobbie in the successfully adapted 1905 novel The Railway Children.  Or, possibly your… Read More