Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-5] 6-123[124: blank] [5-7] 8-190 [3-5] 6-134 [3-5] 6-164 [165-166: ads] [note:complete in spite of gaps in pagination], fly leaves at front and rear, Original blue-gray cloth, front panel stamped in dark brown, spine panel stamped in gold, floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Omnibus volume of supernatural stories, mostly sentimental religious fantasies of the "Little Pilgrim" and her after-death experiences; "The Land of Darkness" most interesting, presenting a mean-spirited metropolitan Hell, surprisingly modern in its depersonalized brutality. Also three fine ghost stories, "Old Lady Mary," "The Portrait," and "The Open Door." M. R. James considered this last one of the "really good ghost stories I know wherein the elements of beauty and pity dominate terror." The material collected here was published earlier by Roberts Brothers in four small clothbound volumes titled A Little Pilgrim (1882); The Little Pilgrim: Further Experiences (1889); Old Lady Mary (1884); and The Open Door. The Portrait (1885). Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 141. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-75. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-135. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1259.

New York: The Hartney Press, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-285 [286-288: blank], cloth. First edition. Douglas Swanson and Antonio Conti, researchers at the Rhodes University Hospital, are under attack from the SPCA for experimental animal research they are conducting to develop new serums and vaccines. When the isolated rural community of Grindle Valley is suddenly victim to a series of horrific animal mutilations involving pets and livestock, Swanson and Conti are the prime suspects, but subsequent incidents force authorities to accept that the town is under attack from a homicidal maniac. Several individuals report seeing a body dragged behind a car through the streets late at night, and soon Jo Baines, a farmer, is found drowned in a creek, his body mangled and broken, his hands caught in animal traps. His young daughter, Polly, who has mysteriously disappeared is later found dead, cruelly bound and hoisted into the branches of a tree where she has died from loss of blood and exposure. The Grindle Nightmare is a grisly, violent crime novel that most closely resembles the weird thrillers found in the shudder pulps of the 1930s or a book by Mark Hansom or R. R. Ryan if either of those authors were better writers capable of constructing coherent plots and characters, regardless of how improbable. In the August 10, 1935 issue of The Saturday Review, William C. Weber summed up The Grindle Nightmare thus: “More nasty people and unpleasant events you’ll never find between two covers. Verdict: Ghastly.” A tense, fast-paced work whose emphasis on abnormal psychology and communicated madness brings the novel squarely into the horror genre. - Boyd White. Hubin, p. 629.

New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Co., Incorporated, [1951]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first science fiction novel.

Garden City: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Spy thriller.

New York: Ace Publishing Corporation, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books 94200. Paperback original. "Time travellers are horrified to find a near-future America riven by interracial war. A simple but moving cautionary tale." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 434. Hugo award nominee and Nebula award nominee. Tucker's best SF novel and one of the major fictions of the 1970s. Published as part of the highly regarded Ace "Science Fiction Special" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1145. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 65. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2520-24.

Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Text offset from plates used for the 1967 British Arthur Barker edition. A novel with a homage to Lovecraft and his Cthulhu mythos. "Probing the reasons behind a close friend's suicide, archeologist Gilbert Austin discovers the existence of "mind parasites" ostensibly products of an ancient race [the Tsathogguans], that inhibit man's creativity and drain his psychic vitality." "...Wison's imaginative harnessing of Lovecraftian imagery to his philosophy of human possibility is challenging and stimulating." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-79. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-503. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1401-06. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-232.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. "Wilson's second philosophical science fiction story again successfully reinvents the Lovecraft mythos to illuminate a personal vision." - Barron (ed.), Horror Literature 4-331. Cawthorn & Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #88.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. A psychological thriller about a modern Jack the Ripper who kills women in London's Whitechapel district. Hubin, p. 869.

London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's third novel.