[Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan)] Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery, first edition, half-title and title in red and blue, frontispiece and 3 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne, faint offsetting, some light damp-staining and cockling, some light marking and toning, ink ownership stamps to endpaper and frontispiece recto, 19th century red half morocco, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip, slight wear to top edge, covers a little rubbed, g.e., preserved in custom half morocco drop-back box replicating binding, [Sadleir 1376; Tymn 2-60; Wolff 4013], small 8vo, Dublin, James McGlashan, 1851.

⁂ Le Fanu's scarce first collection of ghost stories. A noted influence on a number of later writers of supernatural fiction, most notably M.R. James.