THE GHOST BOOK
Book Details + Condition: Hutchinson and Co. (London). Increasingly scarce First UK Edition, 1926. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth boards, front and spine panels stamped in green with image of specter and titling. The first volume of "one of the most distinguished series of ghost story anthologies in this century" [The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural]. Lady Cynthia Asquith’s anthology, which is "now recognized for its many classic contents" [Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction] and is widely considered as the first collection of non-traditional ghost stories. Includes terrifying tales from some of the literary greats of the early 1900s: Algernon Blackwood, D.H. Lawrence, Oliver Onions, Enid Bagnold, and Arthur Machen. Stories include:
- Chemical (Algernon Blackwood)
- Spinsters' Rest (Clemence Dane)
- Mrs. Lunt (Hugh Walpole)
- The Rocking-Horse Winner (D.H. Lawrence)
- A Recluse (Walter de la Mare)
- The Amorous Ghost
- Munitions of War (Arthur Machen)
- And more.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light aging and wear to boards; darkening to spine; toned endpapers; lightly chafed spine ends; repaired tear to top edge of one page; interior is clean and free of markings.
