THE SHAPE OF FEAR AND OTHER GHOSTLY TALES. New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1898. Small octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi-viii] 1-175 [176: blank] [177-179: ads] [180: blank], publisher's pictorial gray cloth with leather shelf back, front and spine panels stamped in dark gray and silver, top edge stained gray, other edges untrimmed. First edition. Thirteen short stories and narratives. Naming the ghost in the final story "Miss Carew" may well be a nod in the direction of Amelia Edwards' supernatural collection of that name first published in published in 1865. "Usually light in tone, either journalistic or fin de siecle in expression; capable within this range." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1296. Bleiler (1978), p. 155. Reginald 11266. Wright (III) 4137. Leather rubbed at spine ends, a very good or better copy. A very scarce book. (#179053).
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