Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories

The Beauty of the Dead (Jonathan Cape, 1940) featuring fifteen stories, was released to critical acclaim. Pamela Hansford Johnson wrote in John O''London''s Weekly that "all have that delicate luminosity by which visions are seen more clearly than in the bright sunlight."

''Old'' is a snapshot of an elderly man – no longer appreciated or respected by his children and extended family – during a Sun...