Books written by L. P. Hartley

  • Ghosts of Christmas Past: A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories
    Ghosts of Christmas Past: A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories

    This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre.

  • The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories (KathartikaTM Classics)

    Be aware that this book includes a big amount of stories that appear for the first time in digital print.

  • A Perfect Woman
    A Perfect Woman

    'What Master?' Vaguely he thought of a schoolmaster, and thenof a masterof foxhounds.'But wedon't have hunting round here.' 'He doesn't mean thatkindofa master,' said Isabel, after a moment's hesitation, for she didn't wantto seem to be ...

  • My Fellow Devils
    My Fellow Devils

    But now she wondered whether he was not cherishing a grudge against her for having treated his employerso badly: she knew that barristers' clerks sometimes identified themselvesso closely with their masters as to refer to them as 'we'.

  • The Brickfield
    The Brickfield

    I had my set backs,ofcourse,times when I didn'tdosowell, when masters expressed disappointment, whenIthought myself (and probably was) unpopular, whenmy parents weren't quite so pleased with me asI thought they ought tobe.

  • The Travelling Grave and Other Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    The Travelling Grave and Other Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    This volume demonstrates Hartley's versatility, ranging from traditional ghost stories like 'Feet Foremost' and 'The Cotillon' to the wickedly black humour of the horror masterpieces 'The Travelling Grave' and 'The Killing Bottle'.

  • The Boat
    The Boat

    ... tomeet Tyroon his own newground, hefeltthat he was attitudinising, andthat the letter hadnomoreto do with Tyro than an essay has with the master itisshownup to, and meant no moreto Timothy than an exerciseinschoolboy dialectics.

  • The Betrayal
    The Betrayal

    No, it isn't illegal to sell skins – you could sell your skin, ifyou wanted to, and I could sell mine' (and he glanced at the back of his hairy hand),'but we aren't surethat selling skins is what Master Chinnery is really upto.

  • The Hireling
    The Hireling

    Leadbitter was master of as many degreesof coldness as arefrigerator, he could modulate froma light hoarfrost to adeep freeze. But only with men didhe adopt these tactics; women were to some extent non combatants, and as such outside ...

  • The Go-between
    The Go-between

    HARTLEY, L.P., 'Introduction' to The Go-Between, London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1963, pp. 1–8. HIGDON, D. L., Time and English Fiction, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1977, pp. 45–50. —, Shadows of the Past in Contemporary ...

  • The Go-between
    The Go-between

    This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley's own introduction to the novel.