TEDIOUS BRIEF TALES OF GRANTA AND GRAMARYE by "Ingulphus" London: Ghost Story Press, [1993]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-105 [106: printer's imprint] [107-108: blank] [note: last leaf is blank], fifteen illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington Scales, pictorial boards. Second edition, enlarged. Limited to 300 numbered copies. A presentation copy with 1993 Christmas gift inscription by co-publisher Richard Dalby on the front free endpaper. The first Ghost Story Press book. A reprint of the original 1919 edition with additional story, "Suggestion," and a new introduction by Rosemary Pardoe and Mark Valentine. Collects nine stories and a poem. "Antiquarian ghost stories, by no means tedious, deftly balancing a light tone with darker terrors. One of the more notable successors to M. R. James." - Robert Knowlton. "A beautifully illustrated and highly sought after collection of Gray's supernatural tales which is a classic of the antiquarian ghost genre ... Although the stories are firmly in the antiquarian tradition of Gray's Cambridge contemporary M. R. James, they are strong enough to stand on their own merits, combining ghostly atmosphere with wit and erudition in a highly entertaining and original manner." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 237. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-74. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 121. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 186. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-87. Reginald 07712. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#159011).
Price: $150.00
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