ANCIENT HAUNTINGS
Book Details + Condition: Arno Press (New York). First Edition thus, 1976. Scarce facsimile reprint of the original publication. Part of Arno Press' hard-to-find "Supernatural & Occult Fiction" collection. Edited by Douglas Menville and R. Reginald. Hardcover with purple boards and silver titling to front and spine. Pagination is irregular, as it reflects the stories' pagination as they originally appeared as part of a larger collection. Stories in this 19th-century collection are by famous authors such as HP Blavatsky and others, and include:
- "The Ensouled Violin" [H.P. Blavatsky, 1892]
- "The Green Staircase" [Gilbert Campbell, 1889]
- "The Haunted Hansom" [Howell Davies, 1870]
- "The Vial-Genie and Mad Farthing" [Frederic de la Motte Fouque, 1841]
- "The Metempsychosis" [Robert McNish, 1899]
- "Fioraccio" [Giovanni Magherini-Graziani, 1892]
- "A Mystery of the Campagna" [Ann C. Rabe, 1891]
- "The Green Hands: A Story About a Duet" [George Augusta Sala, 1873]
- "Ghosts" [Ivan Tourguéneff / Turgenev, 1891]
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. A very scarce edition in near-new, unread condition, with firm binding, bright boards, and a clean interior. Please see our other listings for more rare Arno Press publications.