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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