Walter de la Mare - The Riddle and Other Stories, Faber & Gwyer, 1923

Walter de la Mare - The Riddle and Other Stories, Faber & Gwyer, 1923

It is celebrated as a masterpiece of psychological horror and supernatural fiction. De la Mare pioneered an elusive, ambiguous style of ghost story where the reader is never quite sure if the terror is real or a trick of the human psyche.

Blue cloth with dust jacket in fine condition.  Slightly bumped spine ends.  Tanning to endpapers.  Foxing to page edges.  Text firm and clean.  Darkened and tanning to dust jacket with bumps on edges, tear to front hinge which has been taped inside.  Third impression.

Weight    450g.    Pages   303.