The Green Flash - Joan Aiken - 1973 Dell Books Paperback

Condition: Acceptable. Book title written on bottom book edge. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name/notes inside Cover art: Blurb: “Here are fourteen original tales of the supernatural, ranging from grisly horror through old-fashioned mys. tery to comic fantasy. Some of the characters featured are a young, self-contained child who dreams reality: the ghost of a love-struck, bicycle-riding night watch-man; a canary who bears an acute resemblance to the younger sister of Charles Il; an old lady, hard of hear-ing, almost blind, but with a murderous sense of smell; an artist overwhelmed by mysteriously materializing buses; a beautiful girl whois trapped in a solid glass ball; a man whose claim of precognitive powers is taken seriously by a mad surgeon; a young, newlywed couple searching for the sun in a land where pollution has clouded the skies; and a large, gray werewolf with bril liant eyes, All of these bizarre tales are certain to cap* ture your mood and imagination.”