The Haunted Woman

<p>All that prevents Isbel Loment's marriage to insurance underwriter Marshall Stokes is finding a settled home for her aunt with whom she has been living these past nine years drifting between a series of hotels.</p><p><br></p><p>Marshall suggests Runhill Court whose owner Henry Judge may be interested in selling after the death of his young wife. But the house comes with a mystery attached: a staircase is said to appear to certain people at certain times but they can never remember what happens when they ascend.</p><p><br></p><p>On her first visit to the house Isbel sees the stairs. Ascending them she finds three plain doors. Through the first she sees herself in a mirror with all the potentialities of her deepest nature written plainly upon her face - all that her coming marriage to the shallow Marshall will leave unfulfilled.</p><p><br></p><p>Descending the stairs she forgets it all but is left with a troubling need to understand what happened to her and to fulfil her truer tragic nature.</p><p><br></p><p>Lindsay's second novel questions the possibility of the deepest fulfilment in a world whose very nature seems to work against it - and which may lead those seeking it to test their relationships values and even their very notions of themselves.</p><p><br></p><p>This edition of David Lindsay's <strong>The Haunted Woman</strong> is extensively annotated placing the novel in its historical cultural and biographical context and firmly within the larger body of Lindsay's work as a writer.</p>