Title: The Torture by Hope
Title Record # 1580534
Author: Villiers de l'Isle Adam
Date: 1894-07-00
Variant Title of: La torture par l'espérance [French] (1883) (by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Current Tags: Suspense (1), torture (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), realism (1), Spanish Inquisition (1)
Author: Villiers de l'Isle Adam
Date: 1894-07-00
Variant Title of: La torture par l'espérance [French] (1883) (by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Translated by Mary J. Safford. First published in the July 1894 edition of Short Stories magazine.
Synopsis: A rabbi imprisoned and tortured by the Spanish Inquisition for his refusal to convert to Catholicism is subjected to the ultimate torture, by being led to believe he is escaping the day before he is to be burned.
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Current Tags: Suspense (1), torture (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), realism (1), Spanish Inquisition (1)
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| Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle Stories | 1920-00-00 | ed. Joseph Lewis French | Doubleday, Page & Company |
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| 100 Tiny Tales of Terror | 1996-09-00 | ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg | Barnes & Noble Books | 0-7607-0140-7 | $7.98?$: US dollar |
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| H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre | 2006-08-01 | ed. Stephen Jones | Pegasus Books | 978-1-60598-201-4 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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| H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre | 2007-06-25 | ed. Stephen Jones | Fall River Press | 978-0-7607-9123-3 |
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