Ghost Stories

This collection gathers Walter de la Mare's tales of hauntings in which the dead and the living share rooms, letters, and unfinished business. Typical settings are English houses, lodging rooms, and country places where a visitor, a tenant, or a solitary walker meets a presence that may be a ghost, a memory, or a mind under strain. The pieces favour atmosphere and withheld explanation over shock: a house that will not be left, a revenant at a gathering, a room that retains its former occupant. There is no single plot. The book is a set of psychological ghost stories rather than a cycle with a shared cast.

Bound in yellow canvas blocked with a brown design. Dark grey slipcase.