Weird & Supernatural
Graham (Winifred, pseud. Matilda Winifred Muriel) The Gods of the Dead
London, Rider, 1912.
First edition. 8vo. Original blind-tooled purple cloth.
A rare work of a weird & supernatural bent, Egyptian mummies, reincarnation, ghosts, that sort of thing... Winifred Graham was a a prolific author, though this title was the only one of hers to make it into Bleiler's Guide to Supernatural Fiction (and he was not exactly gentle with it therein!). Distinctly uncommon.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Rider, 1915
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket correctly priced at 6/- on spine.
Paraphrasing the book's preface....''From the abundant records and traditions dealing with the curious belief that certain men and women can transform themselves into animals, the author has collected a number of instances and examples which throw fresh light on the subject both from the point of view of folklore and occultism''
There are chapters on the ''Bush-Soul," on human souls in animal bodies, on animal dances, the "Were-Wolf Trials," on witches, on cat and cock phantoms, on the "Phantasmal Ghost" as well as bird-women.
The book is uncommon without a jacket, it is genuinely rare with one. A remarkable survival.
Rare in jacket.
Weird & Supernatural
or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
London, Rider, 1913.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
Irish author and paranormal investigator O'Donnell ponders on the zoomorphic role played by animal spirits and similar in the afterlife.
Bram Stoker Birthday
London, Rider, n.d..
20th edition. 8vo. Original pale turquoise cloth. Dust-jacket.
Most other works by Stoker tend to suffer somewhat in the shadow of the monolith that is Dracula, and The Lady of the Shroud is in this category; a brisk and enthusiastic foray into disquieting spectres and family obsessions that opens with an excerpt from "The Journal of Occultism" in a rather trademark Stoker fashion. Scarce in the jacket.
Bram Stoker Birthday
London, Rider, 1911.
First edition. 8vo. Original bright red ribbed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, decorated in blind.
One of the slightly "fatter" copies, which we instinctively feel might denote an earlier part of the print run. A very handsome copy indeed of the book that is counted as second only to Dracula itself as showcasing Stoker's extraordinary ability with the grisly and the horrifying.