MYSTIC VOICES: BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF THE REVD PHILIP RIVERS PATER, SQUIRE AND PRIEST, 1834-1913. Introduction by David Rowlands.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. Second edition. Limited to 500 copies. A reprint of the scarce 1923 first edition, with some added material: an introduction by the editor, David G. Rowlands; his synopsis of Pater's novel (MY COUSIN PHILIP), which introduces the central character of these stories; an excerpted chapter from this novel, in which the character expounds on his theory of clair-audience; a list of works by Hudleston; and an early obituary of him. Ecclesiastical ghost stories. Pater was first revived by Montague Summers in his influential anthology, THE SUPERNATURAL OMNIBUS (1931). [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 144. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1291. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 89. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 317-18, Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 404. Bleiler (1978), p. 154. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992)]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (33742). Item #33742
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