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Description
FAMOUS GHOST STORIES
Book Details + Condition: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York). First Edition, 1918. Small octavo hardcover. 302 pages, with frontispiece. Edited by J. Walker McSpadden. A collection of 19th and early 20th century ghost stories, with tales including:
- The Old Nurse's Story (Mrs. Gaskell)
- The Haunted and the Haunters (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
- The Were-Wolf (H.B. Marryat)
- What Was It? (Fitz-James O'Brien)
- The Grey Champion (Nathaniel Hawthorn)
- The Storm-Ship (Washington Irving)
- Ligeia (Edgar Allan Poe)
- MS. Found in a Bottle (Edgar Allan Poe)
- The Phantom Richshaw (Rudyard Kipling)
- The Bagman's Story (Charles Dickens)
Firm binding; light wear to boards; sunning to spine, with the ends chafed (and a bit of exposed cloth to top); interior is clean and free of markings.
