The Messenger Novelette Original Handwritten Manuscript Corrected Throughout In Chambers Hand

by Robert Chambers Illiam

$6,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

A tale by Robert W. Chambers 1865-1933 about the Black Priest, branded on the forehead and executed for treason during the Third Crusade and again in 1760, whose skull is disinterred in a gravel pit, and who returns again to haunt the Breton countryside. The story was first published in THE MYSTERY OF CHOICE 1897 , Chambers' third collection of short fiction. The published version largely follows the final text of the manuscript which has many deletions and revisions by Chambers. THE MYSTERY

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