![]() One of the two women picnicking goes missing while trying to catch a small kitten that has somehow gotten to the island. “Podolo” – A picnic on the island of Podolo, a short boat ride from Venice, becomes an occasion for anxiety and loss. Still one of the creepiest ghost stories I’ve ever read, beautifully written, Hartley uses a radio show for children and a bedtime story to gradually build the main character’s background and create and sustain an atmosphere of imminent danger. The collection opens with, “A Visitor from Down Under,” probably Hartley’s most famous short story, in which a man recently returned to London is pursued by his past. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber and Ray Bradbury, among others. ![]() The Travelling Grave and Other Stories gathers several of his early tales of terror and ghosts and was first issued by Arkham House, known for issuing the first collections of H. ![]() But like other writers from Dickens to Walter de la Mare and more recently Joyce Carol Oates, Hartley leaned toward the Gothic and also wrote ghost stories. Hartley was a respected novelist in his time, his best known work The Go-Between. ![]()
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