The Itinerant House and Other Stories

AN ITINERANT HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES by Emma Frances Dawson collects all of the supernatural fiction of Dawson, whose 1897 volume, AN ITINERANT HOUSE, has long been a scarce and desirable collector's piece.

The new (December, 2007) Thomas Loring edition includes all the stories from that volume plus three more which were excluded from the 1897 edition due to space considerations, for a total of thirteen stories (fourteen, including one of Dawson's translations), representing everything she wrote in the genre.

This new edition also includes the line drawings by Ernest Peixotto from the original edition (which, in their subtle intricacy, so well suit these stories); a facsimile of the book's original prospectus; reviews and articles about the book and the author by contemporaries (most notably Ambrose Bierce, who called her 1897 book "a work of supreme genius"); and an 18,000-word introduction giving historical, biographical and critical backgrounds for Dawson's fiction. Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies.

Additional content details: lxiv + 266 pages, complete supernatural fiction of author (13 short stories – plus one of her translations), all ten B&W illustrations by Ernest Peixotto from original edition, introduction with notes and bibliography by Robert Eldridge, facsimile of prospectus to original edition of 1897 from William Doxey of San Francisco, review of original edition by Ambrose Bierce, foreword to later pamphlet reprint by Paul Jordan-Smith, and obituary of author by Louise Culver.