£75
8vo, pp. 312, [2] + frontispiece and 7 plates. Original dark blue cloth, front board blocked in black and yellow, spine lettered in black. A touch of wear to extremities. Prize label to flyleaf: ‘Award of Merit With Compliments from John Bull’.
An early reprint of Hornung's collection of supernatural short stories set in the titular housing estate, first published the previous year. In his 2017 survey of weird fiction with a geographical bent, A Country Still All Mystery, Mark Valentine writes about Witching Hill: 'There is the suggestion of the occult influence of its former owner, a rake and libertine. Nocturnal adventures, including secret passages, locked rooms, breaking-and-entering, ancient curses and other sinister doings, make for a pleasing volume'.
