She keeps an aged stack of letters about the Cottingley Fairies, the photographs made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle, but later dismissed as a hoax. Rose dreams of a life away from the confines of the Sunnyside Care Home she works in, until elderly resident Charlotte Favell offers an unexpected glimpse of enchantment. It features six short stories, all set in the Victorian era: The Zoetrope, The Marvellous Talking Machine, Meet Me at the Frost Fair, The Ballad Box, The Winter Tree and The Flowering.

This is a micro-collection, published as one of Black Shuck Books’ popular Shadows series. Soon Ivy’s fellow students are convinced Mademoiselle Blanc – Emily White – can appear in two places at once. As increasingly strange rumours abound, Ivy’s obsession spins out of control, and with Emily White’s future at stake, she will do anything to keep her only friend. A book in another pupil’s possession tells of a teacher overseas who had a doppelgänger, their sinister powers driving pupils to hysteria. Yet as Ivy’s devotion grows, odd reports begin to circulate that Mademoiselle Blanc has unusual powers. She has been glimpsed in the garden picking flowers whilst also teaching a class, leaving the school but stalking the halls at the same time. Ivy, however, is captivated, and the teacher is the only one to encourage her artistic talent. Hope comes in the form of a new teacher, Mademoiselle Emélie Blanc, but almost immediately, suspicions are raised that she is not all she should be.

In a crumbling and isolated seminary that has seen better days, she is shunned by the other pupils for her working-class origins, and mourns for her sister, who died not long after she was sent away. This is for a matching numbered set.įor more details regarding the sets you can click on any title (for the 1st three sets) for the others we will be building pages as soon as we can, but we have no individual sets available for sets 4 through 7.Banished from her parents’ farm to a boarding school for young ladies, Ivy feels utterly alone. Each set consits of 4 novellas housed in a slipcase, each book is signed by the author and lettered of 26 or 52 copies. Above is the first such, by artist Chris Moore.

All titles within a set will share one piece of artwork divided between the four covers. A series of novellas, divided up into sets of four independent titles.

Cottingley by Alison Littlewood