{"product_id":"visible-and-invisible-9781636373683","title":"Visible and Invisible","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): E. F. Benson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bibliotech Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bibliotech Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Horror - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenson's second collection of ghost stories contains three powerful tales featuring the type of \"spectres\" that Benson seems to have been most haunted by: large (\"Junonian,\" as he might say), attractive, cheerful, outgoing, middle-aged women. In \"The Outcast\" she is a reincarnation of Judas, in \"Inscrutable Decrees\" she is an emotional sadist and a murderer by omission, and in \"Mrs. Amworth\"--one of the best supernatural tales ever written--she is a conventional but nevertheless terrifying vampire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are other good tales here too, particularly \"Negotium Perambulans\" (featuring a giant slug acting as an instrument of divine vengeance) and \"Roderick's Story,\" that rare tale about a benign haunting that still produces a shiver and the consciousness of a world beyond. (Bill Kerwin)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46448769433751,"sku":"9781636373683","price":1456.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781636373683.webp?v=1769144693","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/visible-and-invisible-9781636373683","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}