COLLECTED GHOST STORIES

MRS MOLESWORTH

SIDE REAL PRESS (2002)

ISBN: 0954295307

303 pages
152# of 300 numbered copies

1st Edition & 1st Printing

Topic: Supernatural Fiction

About the book: Cloth HB; cover reproduces the original four-color design of the original U.K. edition of Uncanny Tales. This edition also includes the original illustration accompanying ‘Old Gervais’ from Sunday Magazine,(1892).

Condition: VG: A book that looks brand new. Published with no dustjacket. Tiny price written in pencil in upper corner of inside back cover; otherwise no missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. 

Description: This edition limited to 300 copies. Presented for the first time in a single volume the complete collected ghost stories of noted Victorian Authoress Mrs. Molesworth. Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921) produced over one hundred books in her lifetime. Known primarily as a writer for children and young adults, she, like her contemporaries Rhoda Broughton and Mary Braddon, also tried her hand at the supernatural genre, ultimately producing ten tales. The majority of these were collected into two, now rare, volumes, Four Ghost Stories (1888) and Uncanny Tales (1896). Collected Ghost Stories gathers these, and other ghost stories scattered from her more general collections together with ‘A Ghost Of The Pampas’, the only known ghost story by her son Bevil (1870-1898). Avoiding the normally ornate style of the typical Victorian ghost story, she produced tales with “a refreshing sharpness and lucidity......invested with wit, charm, intelligence and subtle chills” (Penguin Encyclopedia Of Horror And The Supernatural).

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