Books I've Owned Since I was A Kid. Part 8.

[poliphilo]

This one really doesn't need explanation. The date of publication is 1960. The stories are a conservative choice of "classic" tales- some of them not in the least bit scary- but the illustrations, by Edward Pagram, are way cool. 





"...the face as of a man long drowned"  (Edward Bulwer Lytton: The Haunted and the Haunters)



"The abhorred phantom was before me there" (J. Sheridan Le Fanu: An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street)

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a good name. Sounds like he should have been a fearless vampire slayer or something like that. Apparently he wore a monocle- and his friend James Agate likened him to a "sleek, well-groomed dormouse".