Title: Ghosts and Family Legends

Title: Ghosts and Family Legends Title Record # 1617063
Author: Catherine Crowe
Date: 1859-00-00
Type: COLLECTION
Language: English

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The title page byline credits 'Mrs. Crowe, authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.'; the preface closes 'Catherine Crowe.' and '15th October, 1858.'
The Preface presents the frame narrative as nonfiction. Within that frame every story is printed in quotation marks, with its dialogue in two sets of quotation marks.
The second paragraph of the frame narrative: "After some discussion on the existence of ghosts and cognate subjects, it was agreed that each should relate a story, restricting himself to circumstances that had either happened to himself or had been told him by somebody fully entitled to confidence, who had undergone the experience." Throughout the frame narrative Crowe identifies participants by title and initial such as Mr. R., Miss P., Captain S., Madame Von B.
The first part of the book, "Round the Fire", is framed as ghost stories told by members of a house party. It is divided into eight "evenings". Various stories told on each evening are given titles in the Contents listing for that evening, which don't appear in the text itself. (Those informal story titles are listed in the 1859 publication record.)
"Round the Fire" is followed by an "Appendix" containing purported correspondence: letters sent to Crowe, which narrate further ghostly experiences. She states that she is reprinting them verbatim, but has reduced the authors' names to initials.
The second part of the book, "Legends of the Earthbound", purports to be family legends told by members of the same house party.

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1859^ⓘ 1859 layout: • First Part: Round the Fire --eight Evenings of ghost stories told in a frame narrative, comprising 19 stories and a Conclusion listed in the book Contents but not distinguished by heading or whitespace where they commence • Appendix --"Autograph Letters communicating Personal Experiences addressed to the Author" • Second Part: Legends of the Earthbound --six stories	Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas [as by Mrs. Crowe]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Ghosts and Family Legends	2005-00-00	Catherine Crowe	Sarob Press (Mistresses of the Macabre #7)	1-902309-56-1	£25.00^?£: UK pound	xii+ 115	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Paul Lowe
Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas.	2012-11-11	Catherine Crowe	CreateSpace	978-1-4802-9354-0	$8.95^?$: US dollar	248	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Ghosts and Family Legends	2012-12-15	Catherine Crowe	CreateSpace	978-1-4812-6963-6	$7.25^?$: US dollar	124	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll

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