They Might be Ghosts. Ghost Stories of an Artisan.
London: Ghost Story Press [ Durtro Press ], 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo.x + 268pp. Bound in green cloth with black publisher's device to upper board and titling to spine, marbled endpapers, bibliographical note. B&w photo. Edition limited to 250 copies. DAVID TIBET'S ARCHIVE COPY. This copy has "Archive Copy" written on the reverse of half title page in D. Tibet's hand with his SIGNATURE, and is also SIGNED by the author on the title page. The publisher's description of the content: "David G. Rowlands has been writing ghost stories for the British small press for many years, and his supernatural fiction has won him a large following. His first collection, THE EXECUTOR AND OTHER GHOST STORIES, demonstrated Rowlands's ability as a writer in the Jamesian tradition, and also introduced further stories of Mr Batchel, based on E. G. Swain's fictional clergyman, and Fr O'Connor. THEY MIGHT BE GHOSTS has a number of traditional stories, too, but in this collection Rowlands tells stories with a supernatural twist based on his many life experiences. Thus we have strange events encountered by a club of owners of Riley motor cars; stories of weird happenings in the life of a Pest Control Operative; very unusual happenings connected with events in the life of a player of the Hawaiian guitar; the weird and wonderful world of the garden railway enthusiast; encounters with a psychic detective agency; and even a couple of personal encounters with the great M. R. James himself." The photograph reproduced at the rear of the volume shows the Ghost Story Press team and the author (publishers: David Tibet; Richard Dalby and Kat Cormie, along with author David Rowland). Just a very slight warp to boards, faint bump to upper edge of rear board - else a bright, unamarked near Fine copy (no dust jacket issued). Item #69679
ISBN: 1900441020
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