Lay your course south-east half east from the Campanella. If the weather is what it should be in late summer you will have a fresh breeze on the starboard quarter from ten in the morning till four or five oclock in the afternoon. Sail straight across the wide gulf of Salerno, and when you are over give the Licosa Point a wide berth, for the water is shallow and there are reefs along shore. Moreover there is no light on Licosa Point, and many a good ship has gone to pieces there in dark winter nights when the surf is rolling in. If the wind holds you may run on to Palinuro in a long day before...

F Marion Crawford was born in 1854 in Italy. He lived in New England and in 1879 he moved to India. He later returned to the United States to study Sanskrit at Harvard. He wrote over 40 romances, but is best known for his stories of horror and the occult. This romance begins," The inner room of a tobacconists shop is not perhaps the spot which a writer of fiction would naturally choose as the theatre of his play, nor does the inventor of pleasant romances, of stirring incident, or moving love-tales feel himself instinctively inclined to turn to Munich as to the city of his dreams. On the...

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...

Strange Haunts brings together the short speculative fiction of two masterful storytellers. Eight stories by F. Marion Crawford and four stories by H. B. Marriott Watson are included. Highlights, with ghosts, vampires, and more, include "The Upper Berth," "The Dead Smile," "The Screaming Skull," "The Doll's Ghost," "The Devil of the Marsh," and "For the Blood is the Life."

Volume one of a collection of supernatural and weird tales by a forgotten master of the gothic and occult
Although an American author, writer F(rancis) Marion Crawford was born in Northern Tuscany, the son of sculptor Thomas Crawford, he spent much of his life in the United States, living and working in Boston. His inherent sensitivity to Italy influenced much of his historical fiction. Indeed, in his novel 'Corleone, ' Crawford became the first author to prominently feature the now very familiar theme of the Mafia in fiction. He also produced notable works of history concerned with the...

Volume one of a collection of supernatural and weird tales by a forgotten master of the gothic and occult
Although an American author, writer F(rancis) Marion Crawford was born in Northern Tuscany, the son of sculptor Thomas Crawford, he spent much of his life in the United States, living and working in Boston. His inherent sensitivity to Italy influenced much of his historical fiction. Indeed, in his novel 'Corleone, ' Crawford became the first author to prominently feature the now very familiar theme of the Mafia in fiction. He also produced notable works of history concerned with the...

Volume two of a collection of supernatural and weird tales by a forgotten master of the gothic and occult
Although an American author, writer F(rancis) Marion Crawford was born in Northern Tuscany, the son of sculptor Thomas Crawford, he spent much of his life in the United States, living and working in Boston. His inherent sensitivity to Italy influenced much of his historical fiction. Indeed, in his novel 'Corleone, ' Crawford became the first author to prominently feature the now very familiar theme of the Mafia in fiction. He also produced notable works of history concerned with the...