TY - BOOK AU - Hunt,Violet TI - Tales of the uneasy AV - PR PY - 2026/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Horror tales, English KW - Supernatural -- Fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Short stories, English KW - Ghost stories, English KW - England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction N1 - Release date is 2026-05-04; The telegram -- The operation -- The memoir -- The prayer -- The coach -- The blue bonnet -- The witness -- The barometer -- The tiger-skin; an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer; Originally published; London: William Heinemann, 1911 N2 - "Tales of the uneasy" by Violet Hunt is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book blends social realism with subtle supernatural and psychological chills, often centering on women navigating love, reputation, and moral responsibility in refined settings. Expect ghostly interruptions, forebodings, and the quiet cruelties of polite society, with protagonists whose choices and denials invite uncanny consequences. The opening of the collection presents two interlinked moods of dread and remorse. In The Telegram, wealthy flirt Alice Damer, newly orphaned and weighing the prospect of a companion or a husband, reconsiders her long-devoted admirer Everard Jenkyns; after a strained dinner revealing his decline, a delayed wire and a visit to his chambers suggest he had already died, leaving hints of a posthumous call and guilt-laden farewell. The Operation then shifts to Florence Mardell, second wife of a celebrated actor, who suffers sudden, racking pains while her cook insists she saw a funeral leave the nursing home across the street; amid domestic details, Florence broods over a disquieting letter from her husband’s generous first wife, Julia, and trades candid talk with a friend, as the neighbor’s patient faces a repeat operation and an ominous atmosphere gathers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tales_of_the_Uneasy/o0k2AQAAMAAJ UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78605 ER -