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ANTIQUE DUST: GHOST STORIES...
[New York]: Viking, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects seven stories. "The author's only collection of supernatural tales written for adults, ANTIQUE DUST is a series of antiquarian ghost stories in the tradition of M. R. James, all featuring Geoff Ashden, an antiques dealer. Like Westall's collections written specifically for a young audience, ANTIQUE DUST is very strong collection." - Boyd White. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-386].
DEMONS AND SHADOWS: THE GHOSTLY BEST STORIES OF ROBERT WESTALL.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A posthumous collection (Westall died in 1993), companion volume to SHADES OF DARKNESS: MORE OF THE GHOSTLY BEST STORIES OF ROBERT WESTALL (1994), together collecting twenty-two stories. This volume has eleven stories, including one original to this collection. "Westall's adolescents are sympathetic characters who understand differences between the worlds of adults and children, and their difficult dealings with parents and teachers often parallel their puzzlement by inscrutable supernatural forces. They command reader sympathy and identification, and their adventures show how closely the concerns of sophisticated young adult fiction and the subtle traditional tale of terror are to one another." - Stefan Dzeimianowicz in Neil Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-387. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-387].
SHADES OF DARKNESS: MORE OF THE GHOSTLY BEST STORIES OF ROBERT WESTALL.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1994]. First edition. Posthumous collection of eleven stories including "The Cat" which is first published here. Companion volume to DEMONS AND SHADOWS: THE GHOSTLY BEST STORIES OF ROBERT WESTALL. "Westall's adolescents are sympathetic characters who understand differences between the worlds of adults and children, and their difficult dealings with parents and teachers often parallel their puzzlement by inscrutable supernatural forces. They command reader sympathy and identification, and their adventures show how closely the concerns of sophisticated young adult fiction and the subtle traditional tale of terror are to one another." - Stefan Dzeimianowicz in Neil Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-387.
THE STONES OF MUNCASTER CATHEDRAL.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. A ghost story involving an evil curse connected to a gargoyle affixed to Muncaster Cathedral. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-387].



