They Return at Evening

H. R. Wakefield

Published by Ash-Tree Press, Penyffordd, 1995

About this Item

Limited edition of 308 copies, 300 of which numbered, this being number 234. The handsome Ash-Tree reprint, with an introduction by Barbra Roden. According to Barron, "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars" (Horror Literature, 3-200). Founded in 1994 by Christopher & Barbara Roden, the Ash-Tree Press specialized in reprinting rare and forgotten ghost stories and horror from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, typically in small, limited editions. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 1641. Publisher s black cloth, spine lettered in silver, white dustjacket printed in red and black. xvi, 156, [4] pp. 8 x 4 7/8 in. Frontispiece with photographic portrait of Wakefield, 2 full-page illustrations. Very good; stray smudge to dustjacket rear panel and verso of last page.

Seller Inventory # 7646

Bibliographic Details

• Title: They Return at Evening
• Publisher: Ash-Tree Press, Penyffordd
• Publication Date: 1995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry & Literature
  • Rare Books, Manuscripts & Periodicals