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1888 Weird Tales GHOST Stories Haunted Houses Skeletons Dickens & Defoe

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1888 Weird Tales GHOST Stories Haunted Houses Skeletons Dickens & Defoe

Weird Tales is a rare late 19th-century collection of ghost stories! Written by numerous authors, this book contains tales of skeletons, haunted houses, spooky forests, and madmen!

Notable works included in this anthology include:

â€œOld Mans Tale about the Queer Client”, Charles Dickens

â€œIn Defence of his Right”, Daniel Defoe

Works of Tobias Smollett, E Yates, J Harwood, and Charles Ollier

Item number: #19918

Price: $499

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Weird Tales: English

London, Edinburgh: William Paterson, [1888].

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Green Moroccan leather

Size: ~5.5in X 4.25in (14cm x 11cm)

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Name: 1888 Weird Tales GHOST Stories Haunted Houses Skeletons Dickens & Defoe
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