Show Weird Tales Hold Peculiar Fascination If IC you are not ashamed to admit mit that thai you like a good ghost story told in such sucha a manner that you jou will wUI feel teel as if you jou oUI had hobnobbed with spirits all spirits spirits' nil 1111 your life I then buy Silent White and Beautiful b by Tod Ted Robbins Bobbins the of This is a collection of or four weirdest stories of the supernatural that thai The Tho has been Issued for some time book Is sponsored by no less a a. personage than Robert II IL Davis Davis says The chief chier charm about Robbins Bobbins i lathat la Is that he has developed an entirely new method of oC treatment for the fashioning of tales which stand upon the pedestal of Improbability While taking I the most W f Incomprehensible c I l if liberties I with reality e he proceeds with such boldness and Imaginative imaginative imaginative im Im- im- im courage that the reader ac accepts accepts accepts ac- ac the result as logical and ive ic-c. The first story ston In the book concerns a a. sculptor who commits four murders with strange nonchalance In Inthe the name namo of or art His Ills are human bodies en encased encased en cased In cla clay Wild the Waster is a a. capital capital capi capi- tal ghost story full rull of shadows and dust and hatreds There Is U ft II billiard game played in an old mansion that leads to a murder and suicide and then the shades of the two dead men continue the game Later their nephews meet In the friendly rivalry of the game with the shades lookIng look- look log Ing on and ultimately taking k part There rJ l Is a smashing n climax r and a fitting musty cobwebby ending Who Vho Wants vanta a Green Bottle Dottie Is the third story At some time or another nother perhaps at the very time of writing the story the author must have hav sat In an anold anold anold old Scotch house and listened ot at tho the rats and mice scampering In the walls and the wind moaning about the gables For Arts Art's Sake Is la another remarkable remarkable remarkable remark remark- able story made mado grim with many mur ders It Is longer than the Ul rest but Is perhaps a bit more Intriguing Intriguing Donl Liveright New York |