THE WIGHT THAT WAILED AND OTHER TALES

by Ernest Manfred

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Lim., 1904. Octavo, pp. i-ii iii-iv 1 2-324, original pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in green, spine panel in gold. First edition. Collects eleven short stories, some set in India, some criminous, some supernatural. The stories involve water wraiths, reanimation of the dead by scientific means, ghosts, transmigration of souls. The title piece is a novella-length detective

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