THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES

Wakefield, H[erbert]. R[ussell].

Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1928

About this Item

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],265,[1]pp. Spine gilt a bit dulled, pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, with scattered foxing to text edges (though clean internally); Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), showing some trivial wear to extremities and a hint of foxing; still a bright, Near Fine example. The first and best of the English author's collections of supernatural horror. "Includes "Professor Pownall's Oversight," about a chess player harassed by the spirit of a murdered rival; "The Third Coach," a study in madness involving a nasty confidence trickster; and "The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster," about a haunted golf course.Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M.R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars" (Barron, Horror Literature 3-200). Bleiler 1641 (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES
• Publisher: D. Appleton and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1928
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror