FAMOUS MODERN GHOST STORIES
Book Details + Condition: G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York and London). Very scarce First Edition, 1921. Hardcover. 419 pages, followed by publisher advertisements. An anthology of famous and chilling ghost stories compiled by Dorothy Scarborough - a lecturer at Columbia University, as well as an author. This quintessential collection features supernatural and gothic horror stories from famous authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Anatole France, Richard Le Gallienne, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, Arthur Machen, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Fitz James O'Brien, Robert W. Chambers, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Olivia Howard Dunbar, William Fryer Harvey, and Myla Jo Closser. As Scarborough says in her introduction to the volume: “Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time.”
- The Willows (Algernon Blackwood)
- The Shadows on the Wall (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
- The Messenger (Robert W. Chambers)
- Lazarus (Leonid Andreyev)
- The Beast with Five Fingers (W.F. Harvey)
- The Mass of Shadows (Anatole France)
- What Was It? (Fitz-James O'Brien)
- The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (Ambrose Bierce)
- The Shell of Sense (Olivia Howard Dunbar)
- The Woman at Seven Brothers (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
- At the Gate (Myla Joe Closser)
- Ligeia (Edgar Allan Poe)
- The Haunted Orchard (Richard le Gallienne)
- The Bowmen (Arthur Machen)
- A Ghost (Guy de Maupassant)
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. A clean and firm copy of a very scarce first edition, with solid binding (interior hinges cracked but remain strong); rubbed corners and edges; normal aging and wear to boards; faded spine title; Parker's bookplate to inside front board; toning to endpapers; interior is clean and free of markings.
