50 Years of Ghost Stories

50 Years of Ghost Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Cecil Binney, Sir Walter Scott, Anthony Gittins, Mrs. Gaskell, M. R. James, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Walter de la Mare, Miss Braddon, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, F. Marion Crawford, Shane Leslie, Bram Stoker, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Perceval Landon, Oliver Onions, Vernon Lee, Mrs. Oliphant, Ann Bridge, Violet Hunt, Ex-Private X, and W. L. George.

London: Hutchinson & Co, [Undated]. 60th thousand. Sized 15 x 21.8 cm, pp. 702. With original, unclipped dust wrapper. Publisher's green cloth with illustrations and lettering in black to front board and spine, and plain endpapers. With the original dust wrapper priced at 10/6d. net. With bookseller label to FFEP, reading "The Psychic News Book Shop, 140 High Holborn, London, W. C. I".

Very good book with light bumping to spine tips and one corner, a few small marks to edges, light tanning to pages and partial split at rear hinge; otherwise a very nice copy indeed. In a good dust wrapper with some faded yellow marking to top of rear panel, a long crease down the rear flap, a 4.5 cm closed tear to front flap, a little chipping to extremities and some small areas of loss, as pictured; now placed in a removable, protective sleeve of archival quality.

From the front flap

Ghosts may come and ghosts may go, but their eerie attraction remains perennial. Who can fail to become a little excited and a little more interested at the mention of that "witching time of night when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to the world"? Few can truthfully say that beckoning ghosts, ancient haunted mansions, and the strange spirits that dwell there, have no hold over them.

This splendid collection of the greatest ghost stories will appeal to thousands. The most famous creators of mysterious phenomena and queer spirits are all here, and include Sir Walter Scott, Bram Stoker, Shane Leslie, Walter de la Mare, Ambrose Bierce, Oliver Onions, and many other well-known writers, who have kept the world from their sleep with haunting fears. They are all here in one volume to thrill and horrify you, and to do it so well and so gracefully that you cannot refrain from dipping deeper into this grand and eerie volume.