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Reproduction of the original: The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford
This vintage book contains Francis Marion Crawford's 1911 horror novel, "The Dead Smile". With a ghastly banshee, a cadaver that's wont stay put, and an infectious and sinister smile, this eerie novel is a masterpiece of the macabre that constitutes a must-read for fans of the genre. Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer of novels most famous for his notable contributions to classic supernatural and horror fiction. Contents include: "The Dead Smile", "The Screaming Scull", "Man Overboard!", "For the Blood is the Life", "The Upper Berth", "By the Water of Paradise", and "The Doll's Ghost". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.
It is 1900, a Swedish farm girl of Minnesota desolated by the family's death during a cruel winter, is in suicidal despair. While recovering, she reads the novels of Francis Marion Crawford, the popular romancer of the day who lives sumptuously in a beautiful villa at Sorrento. The romances revive her will to live, to live, for each novel is a love potion driving her to go to Italy, to a love for the novelist which has entranced her. The novels like love potions lead to a romantic death. Francis Marion Crawford from birth was destined for a romantic life, and death in the arms of his young inamorata, Hedwige, Both sailing into the fury of a scirocco. The after talk is that Hedwige was a siren from America who lured Crawford into an ecstatic ending for both. Not quite; some say they haunt the lonely tower off the coast of Calabria where the romancer write his novels. They are seen evenings of a perfumed sea.
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