Title: Corpus of ancient Near Eastern seals in North American collections
First published: 1945
Description: Great modern American supernaturalist brilliantly surveys history of genre to 1930s, summarizing, evaluating scores of books, including works by Poe, Bierce, M.R. James, "Monk" Lewis, many others. Praised by critics as diverse as Edmund Wilson and Vincent Starrett. New introduction by E. F. Bleiler [from publisher's description]
Subjects: Ancient Near East, Seals (Numismatics), Antiques, Russian language, Readers, Science, Horror tales, History and criticism, Supernatural in literature
LC classification: PN3435 .L64 1973