Long Lankin: Stories

Author’s Note

Eight of these nine stories were published, under the title Long Lankin, by Secker & Warburg, London, in 1970. Another story, ‘Persona’, and a longer tale, or novella, called ‘The Possessed’, I have decided not to republish. For the present edition, slight revisions to the 1970 text have been made, mainly in punctuation. The final story here, ‘De Rerum Natura’, was first published in the Transatlantic Review.

November 1984