The Ninth Vibration and Other Stories

About this book

A traveller enters the Himalayan foothills searching for a secluded house and hears the history of a mysterious veiled woman. The beauty of the landscape is inseparable from an expectation that something unusual waits ahead.

L. Adams Beck's collection moves among India, China, Burma and Japan, mixing romance with spiritual suggestion and legends of earlier lives. Its stories reflect the author's fascination with Asian settings, often filtered through a Western imagination. The title tale's mood of longing and secrecy provides a particularly inviting entrance.