Uncanny Tales
Tartarus Press:
Leyburn: 2008
First Tartarus Press edition, Hardcover, Limited edition, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
239 pp.
Please note: This is the 2008 edition from Tartarus and not the 1999 Tartarus edition. One of 349 copies produced. The first edition was published by Macmillan in 1911. “Uncanny Tales is one of the classic collections of ghost and horror stories. Dorothy Scarborough, one of their earliest critics and connoisseurs observed: 'Few writers have equalled F. Marion Crawford in the modern ghost story. His tales have a curdling intensity, a racking horror that set them far above the ordinary supernatural fiction. They linger in the mind long after one has tried in vain to forget them, if indeed one ever does forget their sense of evil power. There is in each of his stories an individual horror that marks it as distinct from its fellows . . .' This volume not only adds to the collection F. Marion Crawford's 'lost' story, 'The King's Messenger', but also further uncanny tales by his sisters, Mary and Anne. The former, Mrs Hugh Fraser, adds an account of werewolves in the Campagna, and the latter, Countess von Rabe (writing as Von Degen), two weird tales; 'A Mystery of the Campagna' and 'A Shadow on a Wave.'” #40661
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