Great Ghost Stories
1930, including Harrison Dale's introduction 'The Art of the Ghost Story'
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Printing Details
First edition, first printing. Hardback, green cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19.5 × 13cm, 399pp.
Harrison Dale contributes an introduction, "The Art of the Ghost Story" and this is followed by:
Wandering Willie's Tale by Sir Walter Scott,
The Old Nurse's Story by Mrs Gaskell,
What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien,
The Haunted and the Haunters by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
Madam Crowl's Ghost by J S Le Fanu,
The Cedar Closet by Lafcadio Hearn,
Thrawn Janet by R L Stevenson,
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse, translated by Dr Douglas Hyde,
The Lady Maid's Bell by Edith Wharton,
The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford,
The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier,
Maese Peres, the Organist, by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer,
The Tall Woman, by Pedro de Alarcon,
The Corpse The Blood Drinker, translated by George Soulie,
The Story of Ming-y by Lafcadio Hearn.
Condition
A good copy. There is some fading to the green cloth of the upper board, and the title page and first few pages of the introduction are foxed but the main body of text is in good, clean condition.
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Price
£30.00
