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THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-271 [272: blank], original orange cloth, spine panel stamped in black, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear panel, First edition, later binding. Collects fourteen stories. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1646. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 112. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-212. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14763 (dating 1939 in error).
HEARKEN TO THE EVIDENCE.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1933. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first mystery novel.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES.
London: Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-313 [314: blank] [315-316: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, probable first binding. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 177. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 445-46. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14769.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE AND OTHER STORIES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects Wakefield's "introduction" and eighteen stories from the original 1940 Jenkins and expanded 1946 Arkham House editions. Adds three stories by Wakefield that were not previously collected with his weird fiction, and an introduction by Barbara Roden. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE AND OTHER STORIES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects Wakefield's "introduction" and eighteen stories from the original 1940 Jenkins and expanded 1946 Arkham House editions. Adds three stories by Wakefield that were not previously collected with his weird fiction, and an introduction by Barbara Roden. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First U. S. edition. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First U. S. edition. 4040 copies printed. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First U. S. edition. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
OLD MAN'S BEARD: FIFTEEN DISTURBING TALES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 400 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Reprint of the edition first published in 1929. New introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects fifteen stories. "... features several fine studies of supernatural malevolence, two of the best being "The Cairn" and "Blind Man's Buff." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200.
OLD MAN'S BEARD: FIFTEEN DISTURBING TALES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 400 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Reprint of the edition first published in 1929. New introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects fifteen stories. "... features several fine studies of supernatural malevolence, two of the best being "The Cairn" and "Blind Man's Buff." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects Wakefield's introduction and the fourteen stories published in the 1961 Arkham House edition, here printed with textual changes made by Wakefield in the margins of a copy of the 1961 edition presented to his sister Mary. Adds four previously uncollected stories first published in original anthologies edited by August Derleth between 1962 and 1971 and "introduction" by Barbara Roden.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 308 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition with new introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections."– Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 308 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition with new introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections."– Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641.