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 Uncanny Tales
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- by F. Marion Crawford
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- A Were-Wolf of the Campagna
- Mrs Hugh Fraser
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- A Mystery of the Campagna
- Von Degen
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- Introduction by Richard Dalby
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- 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 . . .'
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- 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.'
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- Editor
and anthologist Richard Dalby contributes an Introduction
to the life and works of this remarkable literary
family.
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- Uncanny Tales is a sewn hardback book of
239+ xvi pages with silk ribbon marker, head and
tailbands, and d/w.
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- £32.50/$55 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-11-0.
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- Contents:
- 'Introduction' by Richard Dalby,
- Uncanny
Tales by F. Marion Crawford:
- 'The
Dead Smile', 'The Screaming Skull', 'Man Overboard!',
'For the Blood is the Life', 'The Upper Berth', 'By the
Waters of Paradise', 'The Doll's Ghost', 'The King's
Messenger',
- 'A
Were-Wolf of the Campagna' by Mrs Hugh Fraser,
- 'A
Mystery of the Campagna' and 'A Shadow on a Wave' by Von
Degen.
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7th June 2009
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