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Cover artist
  
Frank Utpatel

Publication date
  
1948

Pages
  
235 pp

Author
  
L. P. Hartley

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1948

Publisher
  
Arkham House

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Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
L P Hartley books, Horror fiction books

The Travelling Grave and Other Stories is a collection of horror and fantasy short stories by author L. P. Hartley. It was released in 1948 and was the author's first American collection of fantastic tales. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 2,047 copies.

Contents

Most of the stories originally appeared in two British collections: Night Fears and The Killing Bottle and Other Stories

Contents

The Travelling Grave and Other Stories contains the following tales:

  1. "A Visitor from Down Under"
  2. "Podolo"
  3. "Three, or Four, for Dinner"
  4. "The Travelling Grave"
  5. "Feet Foremost"
  6. "The Cotillion"
  7. "A Change of Ownership"
  8. "The Thought"
  9. "Conrad and the Dragon"
  10. "The Island"
  11. "Night Fears"
  12. "The Killing Bottle"

Reprints

  • London: James Barrie, 1951.
  • London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957.

    • References

    The Travelling Grave and Other Stories Wikipedia
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