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MONSTERS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES.
London: Philip Allan, [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-249 [250-256: ads], original gray cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Collects twelve stories, all but one original to this collection, by Vivian Meik, Elliott O'Donnell, Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), and others. Vivian Meik's "The Two Old Women" concerns African voodoo in London suburb, witches drawing blood and life-force of girl in dreams, probably to revive dead brother. Part of the classic fourteen volume "Creeps" series. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 450. Carter, The Vampire in Literature, p. 83. Frost, The Monster with a Thousand Faces, p. 86. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 10241].
QUAKES: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES.
London: Philip Allan, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-252 [253-256: ads], original yellow cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Original anthology collecting thirteen stories by Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), Douglas Newton, Elliott O’Donnell and others. Part of the classic fourteen volume "Creeps" series. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1351. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 11946].
SHUDDERS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES.
London: Philip Allan, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-254 [255-256: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Second book of the "Creeps" series. Collects eleven stories, several original to this collection, by H. R. Wakefield, Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell, Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), and others. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1475. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 13049].
A HAUNTING BEAUTY: STORIES OF THE MACABRE BY CHARLES BIRKIN. SELECTED BY MICHAEL ASHLEY.
Seattle: Midnight House, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 450 numbered copies. The first volume of Birkin's work from this publisher. Collects thirteen stories, a preface by Michael Ashley and an introduction by Birkin. Ashley assembled this collection in 1983 before Birkin passed away but was unable to find a publisher for the volume for seventeen years.
SHUDDERS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES.
London: Philip Allan, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-254 [255-256: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Formerly, H. P. Lovecraft's copy with his signature and "Providence, R. I." on the front free endpaper and his bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. Collects eleven stories, several original to this collection, by H. R. Wakefield, Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell, Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), and others. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1475. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 13049].