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"""Luckhurst has produced a scholarly yet accessible edition of a pivotal collection of medical short stories, which should be essential reading for students of nineteenth-century literature and medicine. Beyond relating a fascinating publication and reception history, the introduction is a great starting point for anyone wishing to understand how medical practitioners were represented in Victorian fiction."" -Megan Coyer, University of Glasgow"

""Luckhurst has produced a scholarly yet accessible edition of a pivotal collection of medical short stories, which should be essential reading for students of nineteenth-century literature and medicine. Beyond relating a fascinating publication and reception history, the introduction is a great starting point for anyone wishing to understand how medical practitioners were represented in Victorian fiction."" -Megan Coyer, University of Glasgow

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Roger Luckhurst is Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on science fiction, the Gothic and specialises in the late nineteenth century. He has edited for Oxford World's Classics works by Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and H. G. Wells, and, for the British Library Press, a selection of the ghost stories of M. R. James.

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