(#154589) THE HAUNTED STATION AND OTHER STORIES. Hume Nisbet.

THE HAUNTED STATION AND OTHER STORIES. London: F. V. White & Co., 1894. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i] ii [iii-iv] [1] 2-314 [315: blank] [316: printer's imprint] [note: frontispiece and title leaf are an inserted conjugate leaf], frontispiece and vignette title page illustration by Nisbet, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in orange, spine panel stamped in orange and gold, publisher's monogram stamped in orange on rear panel, top edge untrimmed, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in green. First edition. Nisbet "wrote many short horror tales concerning malignant influences from the other world, 'more awful in their consequences to poor humanity than were the life-sucking vampires of olden times.' The best of Nisbet's horror stories are 'The Haunted Station,' 'The Phantom Model,' 'Delphine,' 'Marie St. Pierre,' and 'The Demon Spell' (with a Jack the Ripper theme). These can all be found in his collection THE HAUNTED STATION (1894)." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. pp. 301-02. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 690. Larnach, Materials Towards a Checklist of Australian Fantasy to 1937 (1950), p. 16 (misspelling the author's name "Nesbet" and mis-dating the book 1893). Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume III, p. 61. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 381. Bleiler (1978), p. 148. Reginald 10693. Wolff 5114. Miller, p. 636. Slight spine lean (a fault common to this book), free endpapers darkened with some offset on recto of frontispiece and verso of last leaf, small patch in to bottom right corner of front free endpaper, W. H. Smith blind stamp on upper front free endpaper, a very good copy. A scarce book. (#154589).

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