Victorian Nightmares

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice copy with minimal shelfwear, faint age-toning to fore-edge and endpapers, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, small check-marks next to about half the titles in the table of contents; the jacket shows just the faintest surface wear, mostly to the rear panel]. Editor Lamb's "third expedition into the uncharted depths of the Victorian era fromwhich he has returned with a wealth of strange and haunting tales." Contents: "The Devil of the Marsh" (H.B. Marriott-Watson); "A Tragic Honeymoon" (G.R. Sims); "The Battle of the Monsters" (Morgan Robertson); "The Return" (R. Murray Gilchrist); "The Corpse Light" (Dick Donovan); "The Ship That Saw a Ghost" (Frank Norris); "A Bottomless Grave" (Ambrose Bierce); "One Summer Night" (Bierce); "Ghosts That Have Haunted Me" (J.K. Bangs); "Haunted by Spirits" (George Manville Fenn); "A Ghost Slayer" (J. Keighley Snowden); "The Tomb" (Guy de Maupassant); "The Man With the Nose" (Rhoda Broughton); "My Nightmare" (Dorothea Gerard); "A Life-Watch" (Georgina C. Clark); "The Haunted Chair" (Richard Marsh); "Coolies" (W. Carlton Dawe); "The Three Souls" (Erckmann-Chatrian); "A Strange Goldfield" (Guy Boothby); "An Alpine Divorce" (Robert Barr); "The Story of Baelbrow" (E. and H. Heron). .