The University of Tampa Press is kicking off a new series called “Insistent Visions.” The series is “dedicated to re-publishing neglected supernatural fiction, mysteries, science fiction, and adventure stories from the nineteenth century that deserve to be more widely known and appreciated.” Each volume will be “academically peer reviewed and carefully edited, and will include essays and notes to probvide biographical, historical, and literary contexts, as well as suggestions for further reading.”
The limited editions will be printed on acid-free papers and offered in both hardback and trade paperback formats. According to the series editors (Sean Donnelly, Elizabeth Winston, and Richard Mathews), “Our goal is to issue these works in attractive and affordable editions that will invite readers to discover or rediscover memorable and compelling texts that may have been overlooked or lost by virtue of changing literary fashion, or because they have previously appeared only in collections of stories or in the pages of a periodical.”
The first two volumes are available now: The Library Window by Margaret Oliphant and A Study of Destiny by Cheiro (Count Louis Hamon). The Library Window is “both a ghost story and a Künstlerroman (novel of the artist’s life) in miniature.” A Study in Destiny is “the intriguing story of a curse—and the fate of the cursed—set in the tombs of Egypt, and ahs been out of print since the 1890s.”
The third volume is expected to be Wake Not the Dead! or The Bride of the Grave, a virtually unknown vampire story from 1822.
For more information, see utpress.ut.edu.