num_pages: 108
description: From Walpole's own 1785 introduction: "The Hieroglyphic Tales were undoubtedly written a little before the creation of the world, and have ever since been preserved, by oral tradition, in the mountains of Crampcraggiri, an uninhabited island, not yet discovered. Of these few facts we could have the most authentic attestations of several clergymen, who remember to have heard them repeated by old men long before they, the said clergymen, were born. We do not trouble the reader with these attestations, as we are sure everybody will believe them as much as if they had seen them. . . ."
language: English
title: Hieroglyphic Tales
titlecomplete: Hieroglyphic Tales
genres: Horror, Gothic, Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Short Stories, 18th Century, Classic Literature, British Literature
ratings_count: 224
publisher: Alan Rodgers Books