Victorian Tales of Terror
by Lamb, Hugh, ed
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1975 (c.1974). First American Edition. Hardcover. [book is lightly worn at the extremities, some discoloration around edges of endpapers, small ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents, previous owner's initials + date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is lightly rubbed, with just a bit of wear along the top and bottom edges]. "Fifteen rare supernatural tales from the days of gaslight and gore, hansoms and horrors, music halls and mayhem." Contents: "Xélucha" (M.P. Shiel); "The Black Veil" (Charles Dickens); "The Mystery at Fernwood" (Elizabeth Braddon); "The Black Lady of Brin Tor" (Guy Boothby); "The Mother of Monsters" (Guy de Maupassant); "The Murderer's Violin" (Erckmann-Chatrain); "The Mask" (Richard Marsh); "The Dead Man of Varley Grange" (Anonymous); "My Favourite Murder" (Ambrose Bierce); "The Shadow in the Moonlight" (Mrs. Molesworth); "The Last of Squire Ennismore" (Mrs. J.H. Riddell); "The Red Warder of the Reef" (J.A. Barry); "Wolverden Tower" (Grant Allen); "Madam Crowl's Ghost" (J. Sheridan le Fanu); "The Cave of Blood" (Dick Donovan). .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27716
- Title
- Victorian Tales of Terror
- Author
- Lamb, Hugh, ed
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Rus Anderson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Taplinger Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975 (c.1974)
- Keywords
- Horror Fiction, Anthologies, Supernatural, Short Stories
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