A wonderful collection of creepy short stories detailing spectre-filled spaces by Elia W. Peattie, an American journalist and writer active from the 1880s. Stories include The Shape of Fear, On the Northern Ice, A Spectral Collie, The House That Was Not, An Astral Onion, From the Loom of the Dead, A Grammatical Ghost. With 4 pages of advertisements at the end.

London: The Macmillan Company, 1898. 175(6) pages. 15x10x2cm. First Edition. Cloth covered boards blocked in silver and dark grey, gorgeous pictoral cover. Sympathetic repair by Bainbridge Conservation with textured Japanese paper replacing quarter leather, back board reattached with paper. Small tears to 2 internal pages with no text loss, very good condition.