Crooked Houses edited by Mark Beech (Egaeus Press, 2021) Hardcover Second Printing Limited to 250 Copies

Mark Beech, editor. Crooked Houses: Tales of cursed & haunted dwellings. Egaeus Press, 2021. Hardcover. 351 pages. Second printing. Limited to 250 copies. Condition: Very Good. Slightly bumped upper spine (see photos).  Description from the publisher: Crooked Houses (second printing) Alas! Is there a theme in supernatural fiction more prone to cliché and cozy familiarity than the haunted house story? With this mammoth new anthology, Egaeus Press aims to reclaim that supremely primal tradition, not only from glossy movies, cartoons and television-era ghost hunters, but also from the Victorians, and the great, academic spook story authors of the 20th Century who, by their nature, sought to calibrate, anthropomorphise and provide justification for acts by forces which might hitherto have been considered beyond the scope of human comprehension. Crooked Houses takes its cue from this earlier age. Though many of the stories presented are set in the modern world, the forces which perva