Penn, Mary E.; Dalby, Richard (edit.) In the Dark and Other Ghost Stories. [Richard Dalby's Mistresses Of The Macabre Volume Two.] Published by Sarob Press, Mountain Ash, Wales, 1999. Illustrated by Paul Lowe Limited Edition, No. 78 of 250 copies
Limited Edition No. 78 of 250 copies. Hard cover, 8vo in publisher's maroon cloth boards with an illustrated dust jacket featuring a ghostly figure on a staircase landing. With full-page illustrations by Artist Paul Lowe, and Introduction by Editor Richard Dalby. COLLATION: xii ,[2],124,[6] pp. CONDITION: Fine in Fine dust jacket.** Modern limited edition of an anthology of late Victorian ghost stories by the mysterious writer, Mary E. Penn. As she mainly wrote for the monthly magazine, The Argosy, owned by the prolific novelist, Ellen Wood (1814-1887), there is conjecture that they were one and the same. In any case, these stories are classic ghost stories; "In the Dark" concerns a nefarious deed and a tortured spirit, which finally finds a way to be set free...** Sarob Press is a small press which has published reprints of classic ghost and horror stories, as well as contemporary authors. This book is part of a series reprinting works by neglected, but worthy, woman ghost-story writers, the so-called "Mistresses Of The Macabre".

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