The Shape of Fear: And Other Ghostly Tales
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Albert Bierstadt and Henry Fuseli. Thirteen ghost stories, set not in English abbeys but in ordinary America: a Kansas homesteader whose dead collie still sleeps across his feet, a skater led over the ice at Sault Ste. Marie by a white figure he cannot catch, a young bride on the plains who keeps seeing a cottage her husband will not talk about, a room in an old rectory that passes on the thought once had in it, and a genteel Philadelphia ghost with opinions about grammar. Elia Wilkinson Peattie was a working newspaperwoman in Chicago and Omaha, and the collection, published in 1898, has a reporter's eye for plain detail. Fifty-six plates of American streets, ice and winter light, by painters including George Bellows and Childe Hassam, give these plain haunted places their weather.
Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Albert Bierstadt and Henry Fuseli. Thirteen ghost stories, set not in English abbeys but in ordinary America: a Kansas homesteader whose dead collie still sleeps across his feet, a skater led over the ice at Sault Ste. Marie by ...
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Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862–1935) was an American journalist and author. She worked as a reporter and literary editor for the Omaha World-Herald and later the Chicago Tribune. Her published fiction includes the story collections Painted Windows and The Shape of Fear.
Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862–1935) was an American journalist and author. She worked as a reporter and literary editor for the Omaha World-Herald and later the Chicago Tribune. Her published fiction includes the story collections Painted Windows and The Shape of Fear.
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