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SCIENCE WONDER QUARTERLY.
Mount Morris, IL. Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. The second of three issues with this title. Includes a story by Lilith Lorraine (Mary Maude Wright), one of a small number of women writers who wrote SF in the pulps. The story here, "Into the 28th Century" is a Utopian work. It also includes the "The Moon Conquerors" by R. H. Roman, in which a female scientist undertakes a moon voyage. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 763-766.
SCIENCE WONDER QUARTERLY.
Mount Morris, IL. Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. The second of three issues with this title. Includes a story by Lilith Lorraine (Mary Maude Wright), one of a small number of women writers who wrote SF in the pulps. The story here, "Into the 28th Century" is a Utopian work. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 763-766.
SCIENCE WONDER STORIES.
Mt. Morris, Illinois: Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1930. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Authors include David H. Keller, Harl Vincent, Francis Flagg and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
SCIENCE WONDER STORIES.
Mt. Morris, Illinois: Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1930. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Authors include David H. Keller, Harl Vincent, Francis Flagg and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
TRIAX.
Los Angeles: Pinnacle Books, [1977]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signed by Vance on the title page. Original anthology, contains the novella "Freitzke's Turn." The other authors included are Keith Roberts and James Gunn. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, B104.
WOMEN'S WILES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTERY STORIES BY THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE BOOK OF LISTS.
New York: The Armchair Detective, 1989. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Includes Queen's Quorum, Mystery Writers of America awards (Edgars), H.R.F. Keating's 100 best, Haycraft-Queen list, and much more.
THE PENGUIN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
[New York]: Viking, [1986]. Large octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first attempt to produce a true encyclopedia of the literature of fear: supernatural and psychological. Provides about 650 entries written by 65 contributors (including Sullivan) that, with a few exceptions, fall into three categories: Authors (writers, artists and illustrators, composers and others); films (131 entries for individual films, plus several more combined in an essay "Dracula on Film"); and themes (54 essays on architecture, mad doctors, special effects and other topics). The encyclopedia has been criticized for lack of editorial balance, but deficiencies are offset by excellent critical essays by E. F. Bleiler and others and entries (e.g. Richard Dalby on Arthur R. Ropes) that provide information not found elsewhere. "Unlike too many fantasy-horror reference works, this encyclopedia gives considerable coverage to poetry themes, as well as to individual poets." - Steve Eng. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-31. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-31. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 17.
SUPER SCIENCE NOVELS.
Chicago, IL: Fictioneers, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Victory Unintentional" by Isaac Asimov. Also includes Leigh Brackett, Henry Hasse, Malcolm Jameson and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John D. MacDonald, with two, the second by John Wade Farrell, an Asimov reprint and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Professor Jameson story by Neil R. Jones. This is the final issue. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John D. MacDonald, with two, the second by John Wade Farrell, an Asimov reprint and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Chicago, IL: Fictioneers, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Sherry, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes C. M. Korbluth (as S. D. Gottesman), Ray Cummings, Harl Vincent and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
Jamaica, NY: Tower Magazine Incorporated, 1929. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. "Murder House" by Will Levinrew. Also a Craig Kennedy story by Arthur B. Reeve. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.
JIM THOMPSON: THE KILLERS INSIDE HIM.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Fedora Press, 1983. Wrappers. First edition. One of 425 numbered copies. Fine in wrappers as issued. Biographical information by Collins, an interview with Thompson's widow Alberta and first publication of the novella "This World, Then The Fireworks."
AT DEAD OF NIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-251 [252-256: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks used as front and rear endpapers and paste-downs], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by F. A. M. Webster, Seabury Quinn, David H. Keller, Henry S. Whitehead, August Derleth, Jessie D. Kerruish, Paul Ernst and others, some first published in WEIRD TALES. Seventh volume in the important "Not at Night" anthology series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-297. Bleiler (1978), p. 192. Reginald 14077.
AT DEAD OF NIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd., n.d., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-251 [252-256: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks used as front and rear endpapers and paste-downs], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by F. A. M. Webster, Seabury Quinn, David H. Keller, Henry S. Whitehead, August Derleth, Jessie D. Kerruish, Paul Ernst and others, some first published in WEIRD TALES. Seventh volume in the important "Not at Night" anthology series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-297. Bleiler (1978), p. 192. Reginald 14077.
GRUESOME CARGOES (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-6] 7-245 [246-252: blank] [note: first two and last three leaves are blanks, first and last used as front and rear paste-downs], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing. Fourth volume in the Anthology series "Not At Night". Most stories first published in Weird Tales magazine. This volume includes fiction by Lockhart North, Flavia Richardson (C.C. Thomson), Edmund Snell, Anthony Wharton, Dora Christie-Murray, Harold Markham, Harry De Windt, Dagney Major, Rupert Grayson, Oscar Cook, H. Thomson, Francis Beeding, A.W. Rawlinson, Benge Atlee, L. Oulton. The Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-195.
KEEP ON THE LIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., n.d., [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-254 [255-256: blank] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and endpaper; last leaf is a blank used as rear paste-down], cloth. First edition, first printing. Collects fifteen stories. A significant volume as it has the first book appearance of the Robert E. Howard's Worms of the Earth (his second story to be published in a book). Authors include Hester Gaskell Holland, Oscar Cook, Henry S. Whitehead, Robert E. Howard-Worms of the Earth, Flavia Richardson (pseudonym of C.C. Thomson), Bassett Morgan, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, J. Dyott Matthews, J.D. Kerruish, Warden Ledge, Don C. Wiley, Guy Preston, Hugh B. Cave, Rosalie Muspratt and Clark Ashton Smith. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1593. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-301. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Reginald 14081.
MORE NOT AT NIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., [1926]. Octavo, original red boards, front and spine stamped in black. First edition, first printing. Second volume in the Anthology series "Not At Night". Most first published in Weird Tales magazine. Includes fiction by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., B.W. Sliney, W.J. Stamper, Galen C. Colin, Edith Lyle Ragsdale, Sewell Peaslee Wright, Donald Edward Keyhoe, Seabury Quinn, Stewart Van Der Veer, Will Smith and R.J. Robbins, Raoul Lenoir, Frank Belknap Long, Jr., H. Thompson Rich, August Derleth, A.W. Kapfer. The Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-195.
MORE NOT AT NIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., [1926]. Octavo, original red boards, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Second volume in the Anthology series "Not At Night". Most first published in Weird Tales magazine. Includes fiction by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., B.W. Sliney, W.J. Stamper, Galen C. Colin, Edith Lyle Ragsdale, Sewell Peaslee Wright, Donald Edward Keyhoe, Seabury Quinn, Stewart Van Der Veer, Will Smith and R.J. Robbins, Raoul Lenoir, Frank Belknap Long, Jr., H. Thompson Rich, August Derleth, A.W. Kapfer. The Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-195.
NIGHTMARE BY DAYLIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-251 [252-256: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks used as front and rear paste-downs and endpapers, original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by Dion Fortune, Jessie Douglas Kerruish and others, several first published in WEIRD TALES. This volume is notable for the first professional publication of David H. Keller's famous psychological horror tale "The Dead Woman," and the first appearance of Dermot Chesson Spence's "Little Red Shoes," which subsequently gave its name to Spence's rare and much-sought collection of nasty ghost stories. Also includes Oswell Blakeston's "The Crack," a nightmarish piece strangely reminiscent of Lovecraft's "Nyarlathotep." The eleventh and last volume in the important "Not at Night" anthology series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1594. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-302. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Reginald 14084.
NIGHTMARE BY DAYLIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-251 [252-256: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks used as front and rear paste-downs and endpapers, original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by Dion Fortune, Jessie Douglas Kerruish and others, several first published in WEIRD TALES. This volume is notable for the first professional publication of David H. Keller's famous psychological horror tale "The Dead Woman," and the first appearance of Dermot Chesson Spence's "Little Red Shoes," which subsequently gave its name to Spence's rare and much-sought collection of nasty ghost stories. Also includes Oswell Blakeston's "The Crack," a nightmarish piece strangely reminiscent of Lovecraft's "Nyarlathotep." The eleventh and last volume in the important "Not at Night" anthology series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1594. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-302. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Reginald 14084.
SWITCH ON THE LIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-256 [note: first leaf is a blank used as front paste-down], true endpapers at rear, original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Sixth volume in the important "Not At Night" anthology series. Collect fifteen stories including the first book publication of the The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft and The Curse of Yig by Zealia Bishop (with anonymous collaboration of H. P. Lovecraft). Also fiction by Zealia Brown Reed (Zealia Bishop), Richard Stone, Jack Bradley, N. J. O'Neail, Oscar Cook, J. Dyott Matthews, Frank Belknap Long, August Derleth and Marc Schorer, J.S. Whitaker, H.P. Lovecraft, J. Joseph Renaud, Amelia Reynolds Long, Flavia Richardson (pseudonym of C.C. Thomson), Edmond Hamilton, and R.F. Broad. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1592. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-305. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Reginald 14089.
TERROR BY NIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., n.d. [1935]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Campell" for "Campbell" on title page. Tenth volume in the Anthology series "Not At Night". Significant volume as it has the first book appearance of a Robert E. Howard Conan ("Rogues in the House") story and a H.P. Lovecraft collaboration "The Horror in the Museum" by Hazel Heald. Also includes fiction by Joseph O. Kesselring, Armiger Barclay, Mearle Prout, Ernest Bonney, J. Wilmer Benjamin, Oscar Cook, August Derleth, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Hugh B. Cave, Harold Ward, Michael Gwynn, Flavia Richardson (pseudonym of C.C. Thomson) and L.A. Lewis. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-195.