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- PublisherKimber
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0718302087
- ISBN 13 9780718302085
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages196
- EditorBaker Denys Val
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Cornish Ghost Stories and Other Tales of the Macabre
Published by
William Kimber (1981), London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0718302087
ISBN 13: 9780718302085
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Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover. A nice copy of this title.; 196, [3 (blank)] pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 133mm. An anthology of 13 stories. "Cornwall is a place where the supernatural almost seems to be a natural phenomenon - a land of echoes, a haunted world where the wind whistles eerily in old mine stacks, where lonely sea breakers boom forever in subterranean caves, where on bleak moorland hilltops strange granite circles point to heaven like fingers - a place indeed full of 'ghosts and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night'. In such an atmposhere the imagination has full play and even the most mundane and down to earth visitor can quite quickly come to believe in strange happenings, in fairies and pixies and gnomes, in brooding giants of Trencrom and St Michael's Mount, in the impossible task of emptying a bottomless pool on Bodmin Moor - in whole mysterious areas like the land of Lyonesse, buried beneath the seas that now stretch between Mount's Bay and the Isles of Scilly. In a previous anthology, 'Haunted Cornwall,' I gathered together a first crop of ghostly stories which attempted to peer into the shadowiness of the supernatural side of Cornwall. Now by popular demand comes a second collection in which the same general criterion has been used - that is a list of contributors, some famous, some less so, but all united by the common link of being visibly affected by the brooding mystery of Cornwall." - from the Introduction, page 7. Contents: Editor's Introduction (2 pages); 'The Wicked Vicar of Lansillian' by A. L. Rowse; 'Down the Mine' by Hammond Innes; 'Jarvey's Kingdom' by Jean Stubbs; 'John's Pettigrew's Mirror' by Ruth Manning-Sanders; 'In Killigarrek Wood' by Donald Rawe; 'Mrs Lisboa' by Charles Causley; 'Night Train to Penzance' by Derek Stanford; 'Exorcism Extraordinary' by Rosalind Wade; 'They Walk at Twilight' by Mary Williams; 'White Magic' by Ronald Duncan; 'The Flora Stone' by Meg Buxton; 'Chope's Retreat' by John Moat; 'The Apple Tree' by Daphne du Maurier. Seller Inventory # 26528
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