Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, September 1938, First US Edition, STATED 2nd printing ,VG/VG-, AS-IS, RUB WEAR tiny creases chips to Extremities & spine Edges DJ, Black & Red titles hardback Book is conservatively VG with previous owner signature on front end-paper. Binding is tight. Small scuff to bottom front board. Rare Dust Jacket in protective cover. Jacket has chipping to front flap edge and spine edge, and some scuffing. Very scarce, 1938 on title & Copyright pg , Intelligent brilliantly Written.When mad recluse, Ranald Guthrie, the laird of Erchany, falls from the ramparts of his castle on a wild winter night, Appleby discovers the doom that shrouded his life, and the grim legends of the bleak and nameless hamlets, in a tale that emanates sheer terror and suspense. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Scarce title it was cold that Christmas in the Castle of GFlen Erchany. WIND WHINED THRU CRUMBLING BATTLEMENTS. & Whipped the snow against ancient walls. GIRL & THE OLD SERVANT moved nervously Thru Ancient halls. Peering into shadowy Corners. Frightened at Mood of Ranald Guthrie, Lord of Castle. then shadowy figure on edge of T.