{"product_id":"then-may-the-senses-fall-evelyn-underhills-forgotten-fiction-9781958972953","title":"Then May the Senses Fall: Evelyn Underhill's Forgotten Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential for anyone seeking an authentic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian mysticism that refuses to be \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003econfined by its historical boundary of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecloister.\" -Carl McColman, author of\u003ci\u003e The New \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Book of Christian Mysticism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lost fiction--fantasy and horror--of the famous Christian writer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revered priest's horrifying metaphysical secret that is revealed only after his death. A sculptor's obsessive desire to craft the horrific face that haunts his dreams and drives him to madness. A journey upriver to an unspoiled realm whose denizens revile anything tainted by humans. The sole survivor of an island shipwreck and the terrifying ancient being he confronts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn Underhill (1875-1941) is best known for her groundbreaking and accessible studies on Christian mysticism: over forty books and hundreds of articles and lectures on spiritual practices, including her most famous work, \u003ci\u003eMysticism\u003c\/i\u003e (1911). Yet even the most avid Underhill reader does not know that she spent her youth writing some seriously weird fiction: supernatural short stories that H.P. Lovecraft might have enjoyed. Here for the first time is a collection of short stories, poetry, and an essay written by the foremost Christian mystic of the twentieth century. Furthermore, Underhill's brief fiction career represents an important step in her mystical and spiritual development. Understand these stories and you go a long way toward understanding how Underhill became the transformational thinker and mystic the world knows her to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe English Anglo-Catholic author \u003cb\u003eEvelyn Underhill\u003c\/b\u003e is best known for her groundbreaking and accessible studies on Christian mysticism including her most famous work, \u003ci\u003eMysticism\u003c\/i\u003e (1911), which is still read widely around the world. She resided in London and died in 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors \u003cb\u003eBill Gillard\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRobert Stauffer\u003c\/b\u003e are co-authors of \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Modernism: How Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (McFarland, 2021), a scholarly study of science fiction, horror, and fantasy during the literary Modernist era. Gillard (PhD, MFA) is an award-winning professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and author of books on literary Modernism and speculative fiction, a novel, a short story collection, and volumes of poetry. Stauffer (PhD) is an associate professor of English at Dominican University New York who specializes in medieval and Renaissance literature, and has also published science-fiction short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Monkfish Book Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690671210770,"sku":"9781958972953","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42bd840c-16e5-4ac9-84fe-c88abe79c1b7.jpg?v=1761743129","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/then-may-the-senses-fall-evelyn-underhills-forgotten-fiction-9781958972953","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}