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Fleming, Keith.
"Can Such Things Be?" or the Weird of the Beresfords, A Study in Occult Willpower.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons, London;
Date of Publication: 1890
Stock Code: 15632
First edition. Octavo, pp., 250. Publisher’s red cloth over midnight blue cloth back; titled in gilt to spine; sepia floral end-papers. Library stickers to foot of spine; blind stamp of the Library of the Theosophical Society in Edinburgh to title-page; inscription in ink to half-title. Trace of adhesive to spine; shelf-wear to edges; cloth a touch darkened; binding strong and square. Internally clean, save the library inscriptions discussed above. A very good copy. A weird, sensational, and supernatural thriller of bloody murder, madness, and horror. The novel features family curses, spectral apparitions and a haunted violin. Lurid fiction, also simultaneously published as a yellow-back, from the mucky trough of the Victorian literary stable. Scarce. £185.00