The Death-Mask and Other Ghosts

About this book

A face made from wax can become a disturbing double. A familiar room may harbour a presence no one wants to admit. Mrs. H. D. Everett's supernatural stories begin with small disruptions of ordinary confidence.

Her fiction is especially interested in perception and the possibility that the mind has understood an event too late. Ghostly encounters unfold through carefully paced recollection, with uncertainty doing much of the work. The unsettling detail is usually small and difficult to explain, disturbing an otherwise familiar scene.