The Golem
by Gustav Meyrink

This is the first American edition, British Victor Gollencz sheets bound in decorated lavender boards in 1928 by Houghton Mifflin.

Translated from the German by Madge Pemberton with a frontispiece lithograph by Hugo Steiner-Prag.

Originally published in 1915.

One of several Expressionist occult novels by Meyrink with an atmospheric setting in mystical Prague.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux.

This famous macabre, locked room mystery set the standard for this motif.

This Grosset edition has the the same pictorial yellow cloth duplicating the original Brentano's edition.

The jacket illustration is a still taken from the silent film, although this is not the photo play edition.

A Mirror of Shalott
by Robert Hugh Benson.

Originally published in 1907. This book collects fourteen ghost stories that are each narrated by a different Catholic priest at a meeting in Rome.

About half of these stories appeared in the Ash-Tree Press edition Ghosts in the House.

This rare dust jacket from a 1928 Burns and Oates edition depicts a ghostly procession.

Pictorial orange cloth with a colorful pictorial dust jacket.

This scarce omnibus edition from the 30s collects three novels: King of the Khyber Rifles, Guns of the Gods, and Told in the East.

This is the 1926 first edition of a boy's fantastic adventure in Tibet. The uncommon dust jacket and interior illustrations are by Frank Dobias.