From Armadillo Alley Books, Carrollton, TX, U.S.A.
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Fourteen tales from one of the few masters of the ghost story. First Edition. First Printing. Limited to 2,070 copies. The small book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($4.00) with faint shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 186 pages. 5¼ x 7½" tall. In 'Farewell to all Those', the introduction to his 1961 collection STRAYERS FROM SHEOL, H. R. Wakefield stated 'I've written my last ghost story', continuing with the bleak sentence 'I believe ghost story writing to be a dying art.' However, he concluded his introduction on a more cheerful note, urging readers not to be too sure that 'none of the old magic endures'; and the fourteen stories collected in the original edition of the book show Wakefield to have been still very much at the top of his form. Indeed, STRAYERS FROM SHEOL opens with one of the author's finest and most frightening tales, the classic 'The Triumph of Death'. Seller Inventory # 9706
Bibliographic Details
Title: Strayers from Sheol
Publisher: Arkham House
Publication Date: 1961
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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