Three Miles Up and Other Strange Stories

With an Introduction by Glen Cavaliero

‘. . . Singularly pure examples of their kind.’ So writes Glen Cavaliero of these strange stories by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Born in 1923, the author is best known for her skilfully-crafted novels of upper middle-class English life. Three of the four stories collected together here for the first time, ‘Three Miles Up’, ‘Perfect Love’ and ‘Left Luggage’, initially appeared alongside three stories by Robert Aickman in that touchstone of twentieth-century uncanny fiction, We Are for the Dark (1951), the year after Howard’s first book, The Beautiful Visit (1950), had won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. The fourth and most recently written story, ‘Mr Wrong’, a chilling and thoroughly contemporary tour-de-force, was the title story in a collection of Howard’s short fiction published in 1975. All four stories, which represent the sum of Elizabeth Jane Howard’s strange short fiction, have the power to shock, thrill and puzzle in equal measure, and display the ‘design, coherence [and] deliberate artistry’, for which she is justly celebrated.

Contains: Introduction, Three Miles Up, Perfect Love, Left Luggage, Mr Wrong.

Limited hardcover and sold out at the publisher