The Sistrum and Other Ghost Stories

Edited & introduced by Richard Dalby
Jacket & interior art by Paul Lowe

2001 marks the centenary of Alice Perrin’s remarkable debut collection of macabre short stories East of Suez. Alice Perrin was an extremely popular bestselling ‘Anglo-Indian’ novelist in the early years of this century and a prolific contributor of weird and bizarre colonial ghost stories to Edwardian magazines.

In this volume Richard Dalby has collected fifteen of Perrin’s best tales from her various collections which have all been out-of-print for more than seventy years.

Limited to 300 hardcover numbered copies . Volume 5 in the Mistresses of the Macabre series and sold out at the publisher