FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES
Book Details + Condition: Arno Press (New York). First Edition thus, 1976. Part of Arno Press' hard-to-find "Supernatural & Occult Fiction" collection. Facsimile reprint of the original publication by Lafcadio Hearn, originally released in 1914. Hardcover with purple boards and silver titling to front and spine. 242 pages. "Fantastics and Other Fancies" is a posthumous collection of 36 of Hearn’s early works. These supernatural “short-shorts” were written for New Orleans' newspapers, and rescued from obscurity by Hearn's friends and admirers. Included are:
- All in White (1879)
- The Little Red Kitten (1879)
- The Night of All Saints (1879)
- The Devil's Carbuncle (1879)
- Les Coulisses (1879)
- The Stranger (1880)
- Y Porqué? (1880)
- A Dream of Kites (1880)
- Hereditary Memories (1880)
- The Ghostly Kiss (1880)
- The Black Cupid (1880)
- When I was a Flower (1880)
- Metempsychosis (1880)
- The Undying One (1880)
- The Vision of the Dead Creole (1880)
- The Name on the Stone (1880)
- Aphrodite and the King's Prisoner (1880)
- The Fountain of Gold (1880)
- A Dead Love (1880)
- At the Cemetery (1880)
- "Äida" (1881)
- El Vómito (1881)
- The Idyl of a French Snuff-Box (1881)
- Spring Phantoms (1881)
- A Kiss Fantastical (1881)
- The Bird and the Girl (1881)
- The Tale of a Fan (1881)
- A Legend (1881)
- The Gipsy's Story (1881)
- The One Pill-box (1881)
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Book is 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.
