Wandering Ghosts by F. Marion Crawford Fiction Fantasy Horror Literary

<p><strong>Houses haunted by the skull-bones of a dead man!</strong> Vampires! Haunted steamships! Dolls like Chuckie -- but <em>nice!</em> Horror fans will adore F. Marion Crawford's <em>Wandering Ghosts</em>: Crawford had a sensibility and a gift a lot like Peter Straub's (though no one could mistake this book for a collection of Straub's stories -- their talents might be similar but their subject matter isn't). But oddly he isn't remembered like Stoker and Hodgson and Shelley as a horror writer nor like Robert Louis Stevenson (who gave the world both Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) as a writer of adventure. More like Henry James we suppose: the man had a reputation in his day as a <em>serious</em> writer.</p><p>Yuck.</p><p>This book at least is a horror collection. We know you'll love it.</p>