NINE GHOSTS

Malden, R. H.

ISBN 10: 1899562079 / ISBN 13: 9781899562077

Published by Ash-Tree Press., Penyffordd, U.K.:, 1995

About this Item

HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Reprint of the 1943 Edward Arnold edition, with a new introduction by David G. Rowlands. 300 numbered copies printed, this one marked "a presentation copy". A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 24242

Bibliographic Details

• Title: NINE GHOSTS
• Publisher: Ash-Tree Press., Penyffordd, U.K.:
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899562079
• ISBN 13: 9781899562077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition thus.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Weird Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Richard Henry Malden (1879–1951), Vicar of Headingley, Leeds, and later, until the end of his life, Dean of Wells Cathedral, knew M.R. James for more than thirty years, and greatly admired his friend's ghost stories. The stories in Nine Ghosts, Malden's only collection of supernatural fiction, were intended as a tribute to James's memory. In the half-century that has elapsed since the book's first publication, however, Malden has emerged as more than merely an imitator of James's style, and is now regarded as one of the finest ghost story writers of the century.

Jacket illustration by Rachel A. Crittenden.

Introduction by David G. Rowlands; 'A Collector's Company'; 'The Dining-Room Fireplace'; 'Stivinghoe Bank'; 'The Sundial'; 'Between Sunrise and Moonrise'; 'The Blank Leaves'; 'The Thirteenth Tree'; 'The Coxswain of the Lifeboat'; 'The Priest's Brass'.