NIGHTMARE TALES
Book Details + Condition: Theosophical Publishing House (London). First UK Edition, 1892 [nd]. Hardcover measuring 7.5" x 5.25". 133 pages; Illustrated. With a Foreword by Annie Besant. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards; book slightly cocked; light rubbing to white titling on spine; interior is clean and free of markings, save former owner's name to ffep. "The world knows H.P. Blavatsky chiefly by her encyclopedic knowledge, her occult powers, her unique courage. This little book, composed of stories thrown off by her in her lighter moments, shows her as a vivid, graphic writer, gifted with brilliant imagination. The Nightmare Tales were rewritten during the last few months of the author's pain-stricken life: when tired with the drudgery of the Theosophical Glossary she, who could not be idle, turned to this lighter work and found therein amusement and relaxation. Her friends, all the world over, will welcome this example of gifts used but too rarely amid the strain of weightier work." [Theosophy World] Contents include:
- The Bewitched Life
- The Cave of the Echoes
- The Luminous Shield
- From the Polar Lands
- The Ensouled Violin
