George Wilde's Ghost Stories

Another fantastic spook book from my childhood (that you will have to pry from my cold, dead fingers before I ever give it up) is the "Arrow Book of Ghost Stories" edited by Nora Kramer (1960.) Nine tales of freaky phantoms, kooky cats, wacky witches, and even a repeat performance from John Kendrick Bangs' "The Water Ghost" as seen in our previous entry on Fred Banbery. In today's post, the illustrated credits go to George Wilde, who like Banbery, creates a wonderfully detailed, scratchy sense of mood and humorous exaggeration in his nice, loose line work. This stuff may not be as technically slick as Banbery, or say Gordon Laite, (who we'll look at in the next post), but it's certainly just as terrific.

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