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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. |> This First Edition of A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories , edited by Everett F. Bleiler, and published by Charles Scribner s Sons in 1981, should be a treat for all lovers of the supernatural. Here are twenty-four stories, selected from rare periodicals and books, that are sure to be new to the American reader. Included are two almost unknown stories by Charles Dickens, among his finest work; the first appearance in book form of a lost short story by Wilkie Collins; and the first reprinting since 1903 of six pieces by Ambrose Bierce. From the horror that drips water over a young man s rooms and follows him to the altar on his marriage, to the beautiful grinning demon who comes from a phantom house holding a goblet, the stories reveal the range of the nineteenth-century ghost story, and provide hours of chillingly pleasurable reading.<| CONTENTS : To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens / The Ghost in the Bride s Chamber by Charles Dickens / Nine O Clock by Wilkie Collins / The dutch Officer s Story by Mrs. Catherine Crowe / Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling by J. S. Le Fanu / A Curious Experience by Mrs. Henry Wood / Le Vert Galant by Anonymous / At Chrighton Abbey by Mary E. Braddon / The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton / Ken s Mystery by Julian Hawthorne / A Terrible Vengeance by Mrs. J. H. Riddell / The Old Lady in Black by Anonymous / The Library Window by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant / The Empty Picture Frame by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin / A Grammatical Ghost by Elia W. Peattie / The Mystery of the Semi-detached by E. Nesbit / My Enemy and Myself by Vincent O Sullivan / Midday Magic by Paul Heyse / Witch In-Grain by R. Murray Gilchrist / A Stray Reveler by Emma Dawson / The Vanishing House by Bernard Capes / Bodies of the Dead by Ambrose Bierce / Death and the Woman by Gertrude Atherton / The Laird s Luck by Arthur Quiller-Couch ******************************************* TITLE : A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories / AUTHORS : Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Nesbit, Gertrude Atherton, Arthur Quiller-Couch, et al / EDITOR : Everett F. Bleiler / IMPRINT : Charles Scribner s Sons / PLACE : New York / DATE : (1981) / EDITION : First Edition, First Printing / STATUS : Hardcover OP. This edition OP / DETAILS : Trade hardcover; contains an Introduction, sources, and a suggested reading list; [x] + 358 pages; approximately 6 x 9 ; black, paper-covered boards and spine, with silver-gilt lettering on spine; pictorial dust-jacket. ***************************************** CONDITION BOOK: NEAR FINE - JACKET : VERY GOOD This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR : Spine extremities are slightly compressed, else exterior is clean and crisp with bright spine lettering. / BINDING : Solid / INTERIOR : Clean and free of marking. No writing - no signatures - no marginalia. / DUST-JACKET : Slight wear to edges; front panel displays cleanly; rear panel displays some blind indentations, else clean and bright. Front flap still has original 1981 price.