GHOSTLY TALES TO BE TOLD - A COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM THE GREAT MASTERS, ARRANGED FOR READING AND TELLING ALOUD
Book Details + Condition: Dodd, Mead and Company (New York). Signed and Inscribed First Edition, 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket. 320 pages. Signed and inscribed by author Basil Davenport on the front free endpaper, which reads: "To Paul and [author] Constance Rittenhouse, in the hope that they won't read them before I can (?) them at Fire (?) or skiing or canoeing. -Basil Davenport". GHOSTLY TALES is a collection of short supernatural stories by noted authors including Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, F. Marion Crawford, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, William Harvey, Manly Wade Wellman, Edward Luckas White, Thomas Burke, May Sinclair and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Stories include:
- The Wendigo (Blackwood)
- August Heat (Harvey)
- Count Magnus (James)
- Where Angles Fear (Wellman)
- The House of the Nightmare (White)
- The Screaming Skull (Crawford)
- The Monkey's Paw (Jacobs)
- The Yellow Wall-Paper (Gilman)
- Captain Murderer (Charles Dickens)
- And more.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. In very good condition, with firm binding; lightly rubbed corners and edges; interior is clean and free of markings, save Davenport's inscription to ffep. Original dust jacket has some old repairs with tape (to lower spine), with chipping to edges; it retains its original price and is now protected with a mylar cover.
