A Wave of Fear: A Classic Horror Anthology

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Good in Very Good dj. 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. [shelfworn ex-library book (although only marking is a stamp on the top edge), spine turned, hinges a little weak, small tape marks on covers, light soiling/staining in gutters, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, small check-marks next to all titles in table of contents; the jacket is fairly nice-looking, with a rectangular label-removal scar near the bottom of the spine, a bit of wrinkling along the top edge, and a small internal tape-reinforcement at the base of the spine]. Another of Lamb's well-chosen anthologies, this one with the avowed aim of providing "a broad cross-section of the ghost and horror story writers, both known and unknown, of the last eighty years." Contents: "The Child" (L.A. Lewis); "Celui-la" (Eleanor Scott); "A Resumed Identity" (Ambrose Bierce); "Huguenin's Wife" (M.P. Shiel); "Blind Man's Buff" (H.R. Wakefield); "Marjorie's on Starlight" (Charles Birkin); "Hawley Bank Foundry" (L.T.C. Rolt); "Twilight" (Marjorie Bowen); "Basil Netherby" (A.C. Benson); "The Wishing Well" (E.F. Benson); "The Traveller" (R.H. Benson); "Phantom Silhouette" (Joy Burnett); "Terrible Mrs. Greene" (Frederick Cowles); "Clairvoyance" (D.K. Broster); "The Late Occupier" (J.D. Beresford); "The Messenger" (Robert W. Chambers); "A Honeymoon in Hate" (Vivian Meik). .