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Contents: The woman at the store -- The wind blows -- Sun and moon -- Bliss -- The young girl -- Bank holiday -- Mrs Brill -- Revelations -- The daughters of the lizard colonel -- The escape -- The garden party -- The unlife of Ma Parker -- The doll's house -- The voyage -- Her first bite -- A cup of tea -- The fly Summary: Katherine Mansfield is one of New Zealand's most famous and influential writers. While her work is well known, many will be surprised to learn that the 'accepted' versions of her stories are often pale reflections of the original manuscripts. In the late 1990s, literary historian Dr Marcus Walker uncovered a cache of partial manuscripts that revealed a side of Mansfield that her friends, family, and publishers had successfully hidden for many years. Mansfield with monsters is the first time that Mansfield's vision of the supernatural has been published in full - a dream that she often spoke of in her correspondence with occultist Aleister Crowley and American author H. P. Lovecraft. Matt and Debbie Cowens are honoured to carry on Dr Walker's work, recreating Mansfield's beloved tales as they were first written, complete with vampires, ghouls, and alien monsters. These versions will shock and delight those in the literary community who always suspected that there was more to Mansfield's work than we had been led to believe. Mansfield once wrote, "don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask." While we may never know Mansfield's true face or fate, Matt and Debbie Cowens are proud to draw back the public mask of one of our most beloved authors to reveal the more chilling mask beneath. (Publisher)