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Five Victorian Ghost Novels

E. F. Bleiler

First published 1971
Publisher Dover Publications
Format Trade Paperback
Type Omnibus
Cover art Edward Gorey
Pages xiv+421
Price $3.50
ISBN 0486225585


Contains one novel and four novellas

Dover prices and printing dates: • $3.50 -- published 1971-08-16 per Amazon UK • $4.95 -- no date, verified ISFDB record • $29.95 -- published 2011-12 or 2012-01 per Amazon US The Amber Witch is {{TR|Lady Duff Gordon}} from its original German.

  • New edition
  • Publication date and cover image from Amazon UK 2019-03-21 as "Buy New   £21.99", with "Look inside" a later printing that contains title leaf, Contents, and back cover: -- title page undated -- t.p. verso states 1971 copyright, 1971 first publication of this edition -- Introduction, spans p[v]-xiv (some omitted from the selection) -- back cover credits the cover design, states "$29.95 USA" and "printed in the USA" Back cover blurb, concluding paragraph: "Original 1971 publication. ... 6 illustrations by Philip Burne-Jones and Maria Beale from original publications."
  • Detail contents are from the verified ISFDB record of a later printing, no date, ISBN-10, price $4.95 (see).
  • Front cover evidently matches that of the $4.95 printing. Some difference from that of the 1st printing is possible.

Year Reviewer Publication
1972 Charlotte Moslander Luna Monthly, #32, January 1972
1972 Gahan Wilson The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1972