WANDERING GHOSTS
Book Details + Condition: The Macmillian Company (New York). First Edition, 1911. Hardcover. 302 pages with advertisements and frontispiece. The major collection of Crawford's weird tales, issued two weeks earlier in Great Britain as UNCANNY TALES. F. Marion Crawford is well known for his short horror fiction, collected posthumously as 'Wandering Ghosts' but written mostly in the 1890s. The suicide-haunted story "The Upper Berth" is one of the most reprinted of all ghost stories. Stories in the collection include:
- The Dead Smile
- The Screaming Skull
- Man Overboard!
- For the Blood is the Life
- The Upper Berth
- By the Waters of Paradise
- The Doll's Ghost
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; light aging and wear to boards, with a bit of faint discoloration / darkening; Parker's bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.
