From Out of the Silence (Nezu Press Classics)

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From Out of the Silence</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> originally published in 1920 is Bessie Kyffin-Taylor's only volume of short stories. It contains seven supernatural tales set around the time of the First World War perfect for 'those who enjoy having their hair raised by tales of restless spirits' (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Liverpool Daily Post</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 13 January 1921). In addition to the seven tales this new edition includes 'Afterwards!' Bessie's non-fiction piece about wartime unemployment written for the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Liverpool Evening Express</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in 1919. It also includes a 23-page biographical essay by Gina R. Collia: 'Bessie Kyffin-Taylor: A Graceful Writer of Ghost Stories'.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Faces pressed against the window peering in upon me but faces such as I never in life beheld. They were dark almost black with sunken fiercely gleaming eyes the cheekbones protruding flesh sunken looking almost like living skeletons save for the skin which stretched tightly over the bones; anger despair ferocity hunger terror-all were depicted upon those awful faces.'</em></p>