The Undying Monster

A Tale of the Fifth Dimension

Jessie Douglas Kerruish

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British Library Publishing
22 February 2024

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Classic horror & ghost stories

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

“Where grow pines and firs amain, Under Stars, sans heat or rain,

Chief of Hammand, ‘ware thy Bane!”

So goes the ancient rhyme of the Hammands, a family hounded for centuries by a ferocious beast whose visitations wreak death and disorder. Now, in the wake of the First World War, siblings Oliver and Swanhild are the last of the Hammands, safe again at their ancestral home in the South Downs – until Oliver is beset by a creature in the pines by night. Desperate to dispel the curse, the siblings call on the occult detective Luna Bartendale to help unearth the dark origins of the Undying Monster and unshackle them from a savage doom.

First published in 1922, this cult novel is a heady brew of black magic lore, Norse mythology and weird mysteries spilling out of an eldritch ‘fifth dimension’ – complete with the first female occult detective to appear in an English novel, the ‘White Witch‘ Luna Bartendale.

By: Jessie Douglas Kerruish
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 46
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712354936
ISBN 10: 071235493X
Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jessie Douglas Kerruish (1884-1949) was a British writer of romantic, horror, and historical fiction, descended from an ancient Manx family. She was a regular contributor to The Weekly Tale-Teller, finding success with the publication of Miss Haroun-al-Raschid (1917) and The Girl from Kurdistan (1918), novels set in North Africa and the Middle East, before publishing her best-known work, The Undying Monster, 1922.