CRAM RALPH ADAMS; STEFAN DZIEMIANOWICZ (INTRODUCTION) DOUGLAS A. ANDERSON (INTRODUCTION), - BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE.
UK Tartarus Press 2004 First Edition Private Press Hard Cover Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Fine/Fine/Fine 145 + xxi pages. Introduction to Black Spirits & White by Stefan Dziemianowicz and an Introduction to the Uncollected Stories by Douglas A. Anderson. Black Spirits and White a collection of six stories originally published in 1895 is regarded as a landmark of the nineteenth-century weird tale. H.P. Lovecraft singled out the story 'The Dead Valley' as one of the small percentage of American works deserving of high praise in his seminal essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'. In the decades since Cram's death in 1942 the book's reputation has only improved. The stories researched during Cram's travels through Europe as a young man are sublime renderings of the Gothic tradition. By 1900 Cram's career as one of America's leading architects had taken off and he gave up writing fiction. What is less well known is that amongst poetry and drama he had also written and published two further stories: The Decadent; or the Gospel of Inaction (1893) about an æsthete's retreat from the world into art ripe with the influence of Oscar Wilde and a Decadent spirit that provoked public controversy and 'How Jamie Rode for the King' (1897) an historical adventure set in the Scotland of the Jacobite rebellion. These two tales have never before been collected and 'How Jamie Rode for the King' is reprinted here for the first time since its original magazine publication. In his new Introduction Stefan Dziemianowicz provides a comprehensive summary of Cram's life and architectural career and a critical appreciation of the stories of Black Spirits and White. Douglas A. Anderson explores the uncollected stories within the context of Cram's other literary work. Limited to 300 copies.
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