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Hard cover, 8vo, in publisher's light blue paper-covered boards ruled around the board edge in navy blue enclosing the title and printed with titles to the spine. A publisher's art deco style vignette logo with the phrase "De Stormais" to the bottom left rear board. COLLATION: [iv], 5-190pp., [1], plus 1 p. advertising for Wright"s Coal Tar Soap." CONDITION: Very Good, with some soiling and light marks to the exterior, and general browning of the pages, as is typical for this wartime publication. Early owner's signature to endpaper in old ink. ** AUTHOR Arthur Machen (1863-1947), had a deep love of his native Wales and its Celtic past, and his early writings such as "The Great God Pan" (1894) evoked the horrors of a parallel world inhabited by demons and pagan unknowables, and the thin wall protecting us from them. ** "The Terror" is a story of terrible disappearances in a Welsh village during WWI, and the rumors about the possible cause, from malicious Celtic fairies, to German soldiers who had landed by submarine and were in hiding. The suspense is built through the gossip of the village, and the perspectives of various characters, and culminates in a handwritten account written by one of the last victims... and a final conclusion by the narrator. One of Machen's best works, alongside his gothic novel, "The Hill of Dreams" (1907), and his equally remarkable biographies, "Far Off Things" (1922), "Things Near and Far" (1923), and "The London Adventure" (1924). REFS: Bleiler (1983) 1076, p334. Goldstone & Sweetser (1973) 16a, p. 37.
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$95.00