![]() ![]() 61-64 ("the most important and influential figure in the horror field"). 233-35 ("some of the most alarming and unforgettable ghost stories in the English language"). ![]() Fine and tightly bound, light sporadic spotting (occasionally moderately so) to pages (not plates). Original beige linen stamped in black and red, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. A superb Ninth Impression of these tales that "have come to be seen as the epitome of the English ghost story." (Literary Encyclopedia) Demy 8vo (211 x 145mm): xii,270pp, with four illustrations by James McBryde. MRJ almost certainly read "An Antiquary's Ghost Story" in advance of composing his own vastly more famed Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. His "An Antiquary's Ghost Story" is moderately well known, but few people are aware that he composed others in the final decade of the nineteenth century.He and MRJ became friends when they collaborated on their remarkable study and translation of the 12th century Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich by Thomas of Monmouth (1896) which MRJ discovered in a Suffolk church. ![]() Pfaff, Jessopp was "a fine specimen of the learned but somewhat eccentric country parson. A collection of Victorian ghost stories by a friend of M. Augustus: THE PHANTOM COACH: AN ANTIQUARY'S GHOST STORIES. ![]()
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