"The Weird Gem" of Graham Greene's Story published by Strand Magazine | Graham Greene

A brief ghost story by Graham Greene has been described by analysts as "a weird gem" and was first published Wednesday, a darker side of the 20th-century literary giant.

Night Reading appears in the 75th issue of Strand Magazine, the New York Literature Quarterly, which has earned a reputation for finding and publishing the "Lost" works by famous authors.

Landmark Edition also used for the first time widely used the famous spy novelist Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond series.

Green's story delves into the resurrection of the "Childhood and Imaginary Horror" experienced by a frightening male traveler, as he reads supernatural stories in bed on a stormy night in French Riviera.

Green's biographer Jon Wise told Strand that the story might have been written in 1962, and during a relatively barren period of his career, British writers said he "has no novels in it." This runs against Green's more in-depth, more complex writing styles expressed in Green's most famous psychological and political thriller (including the Third Man, We're in Havana, Power and Glory, and Brighton Rock).

Duel Duet, Graham Greene's short story collection will be released by Penguin in July. Photo: Penguin

"Green is not only a masterful novelist, but also excellent in short story form," said Andrew F Gulli, executive editor of Strand Magazine.

“As a huge admirer of Graham Greene, I often think he is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, which is a personal highlight. Given his creepy ghost story in the original Strandazine Back in 1939, it makes especially meaningful.

"While the story here may present less obvious threats, it still proves that Greene has a compelling attention and cleverly blurs the line between entertainment and drama. Greene is a very serious author, and there is humor here. It's a humor.

In this story, the protagonist recalls Mr. James reading his horror and horror stories as a child, and since then he never likes to read anything alone in bed that could prove ghost or violence”.

So his ancient fear surged when he was alone in the bedroom of a "strange" rental house in Côte d'Azur, in the middle of a violent storm, with only one paperback anthology for the company's stories. In the creepy stories he has read and in the bedroom where he is reading, there are mysterious scratches on the windows.

Gley said the manuscript was found in archives at the Harry Lansau Center Library at the University of Texas at Austin and was evaluated and transcribed by Camilla Greene, the housekeeper of Green's literary writer and granddaughter of the writer, who died in 1991.

"Until now, this creepy stone has been hidden."

"It's a story you can recognize. When you're traveling alone, something weird can happen to you, not as weird as this one, but I knocked on the door in the middle of the night, or something unusually squeaky, or you have a nightmare or something.

“It’s kind of like everyday activities, the great phrase from Graham Greene, his great style, turns it into something if you can go too far, but far enough to be interested in it.”

Meanwhile, Fleming's story is called "Shameful Dreams" and is also separated from the author's traditional fare. As a literary editor of the London journal for a series of memories of a possible conference with the overbearing allegorical of the publication, it builds suspense through a series of previous sacks.

"While it's always associated with the tuxedo charm of 007, Fleming is a talent that can transcend the genre," Guli said.

"The piece has no martinis, no Aston Martins, no villains tend toward world domination. It's a disturbing story about a washed journalist wrestling, fearing of inviting a mansion of abusive media tycoons, a story of a spy Spy Thriller, a lesser-known ability to Fleming and a sharper social observation of Fleming's abilities."

The story will also be in the context of a discussion about The Devil, a collection of Fleming's works that contains brief novels, travel papers, lectures, and correspondence with his friend and crime novelist Raymond Chandler, which will be published later this month.

In July, 22 of Greene's short stories will be in another new series called Duel Duet, which was published by Penguin.