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COUCHING AT THE DOOR.
London..Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., [1942]. Octavo, original light blue cloth, spine stamp in gold. First edition. "Effective and unusual tales." - Barron: Horror Literature 3-37. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #297.
COUCHING AT THE DOOR: STRANGE AND MACABRE STORIES. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First printing of the enlarged edition. Limited to 600 copies. The Ash-Tree edition collects the contents of COUCHING AT THE DOOR (1942), the weird tales from A FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD (1932) and "The Taste of Pomegranates," a previously uncollected tale, with an introduction by editor Jack Adrian.
THE DEATH-MASK AND OTHER GHOSTS.
[London]: Ghost Story Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. One of 350 numbered copies. First published in London by Philip Allan in 1920, this edition adds, "The Whispering Wall" (1916) and "The Pipers of Mallory" (1917), two previously uncollected stories published under the author's pseudonym "Theo Douglas," and new introduction by Richard Dalby. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, 76. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 615. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 286. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, pp. 194-95. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04972.
THE DEATH-MASK AND OTHER GHOSTS.
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-321 [322-324: ads], original red boards, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The author's only collection of supernatural fiction. "In his famous essay 'Some Remarks on Ghost Stories' (Bookman Christmas Number, 1929), M. R. James devoted one paragraph to recent collections, beginning with A. M. Burrage's SOME GHOST STORIES and H. R. Wakefield's THEY RETURN AT EVENING. 'Going back a few year's I light on Mrs. Everett's THE DEATH-MASK, of a rather quieter tone on the whole, but with some excellently conceived stories,' he wrote, before briefly mentioning the tales of Robert Hugh Benson - 'too ecclesiastical' - and the 'rather over-technically '"occult"' adventures of Flaxman Low by Kate & Hesketh Prichard and John Silence by Algernon Blackwood. In retrospect, Mrs. H. D. Everett's collection has become a much rarer volume than any of the contemporary titles listed by MRJ, and very few copies are known to exist today. Unlike Burrage and Wakefield, her tales are much closer in style (although several are set in the First World War, and quite modern in context) to the great 19th century women writers of ghost stories, notably Mary E. Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, and Mrs. J. H. Riddell... These fourteen original ghost stories were enthusiastically received by readers and critics alike ... THE DEATH-MASK was the first in a long line of supernatural collections published by Philip Allan. Its initial success must have encouraged him to issue THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE by 'Christopher Blayre' [Edward Heron-Allen] in 1921... and many more for the same company ... When Philip Allan inaugurated his 'Creeps' series in 1932, he revived two of Mrs. Everett's best stories - 'THE DEATH-MASK' in SHIVERS, and 'The Crimson Blind' in SHUDDERS -- both were reprinted in the 'Creeps' Omnibus three years later." - Richard Dalby. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, 76. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 615. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 286. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, pp. 194-95. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04972.
COVER HER FACE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Signed by the James on the title page. Author's first book, introducing Chief Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. "Her first detective story, immediately pleasing and impressive." Barzun and Taylor: A Catalogue of Crime (1989) #1913.
UNNATURAL CAUSES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The third Adam Dalgliesh novel.