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A PLEASING TERROR: THE COMPLETE SUPERNATURAL WRITINGS OF M. R. JAMES. Introduction by Steve Duffy.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. A definitive edition of the supernatural fiction of James, including stories and fragments left out of the collected edition of 1931, as well as writings by James about the ghost story and secondary material about this author, one of the chief architects of the twentieth-century ghost story. Item #22906
TALES FROM UNDERWOOD.
NY: Published for Arkham House by Pellegrini & Cudahy, [1952]. Octavo, cover illlustration by Ronald Clyne. cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-three stories, most first published in the pulps, AMAZING STORIES, WEIRD TALES and others, from 1927 through the 1930s. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-55. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 938. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 573. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-126. See Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-113. Item #22904
NIGHT'S YAWNING PEAL: A GHOSTLY COMPANY.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House: Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by August Derleth, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Carl Jacobi, H. Russell Wakefield, Robert Bloch, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. "The Churchyard Yew" attributed to J. Sheridan Le Fanu was actually written by Derleth. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 529. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-258. Item #22901
SOMEONE IN THE DARK.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1941. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1115 copies printed. The second Arkham House book and Derleth's first collection of supernatural fiction. These stories are almost all culled from the pulps, many from Weird Tales. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-47. Item #22900
THE TANGLED SKEIN.
Penyffordd, Chester: Calabash Press, 1995. Cloth. First edition. Originally published in 1992 in a limited edition of 500 copies. Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula. Forward by Peter Cushing. Item #22897
UNDER THE CRUST: SUPERNATURAL TALES OF BUXTON.
Buxton: Wendigo, 1993. Octavo, photographs by Michael Patey-Ford, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition. Collects the title story which won World Fantasy Best Novella award in 1994 and five others. "Memorably atmospheric stories that juxtapose simple smalltown lives with awesome supernatural horrors." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-79. Item #22896
TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR.
Bradford: Caliban, 1998. Octavo, illustrations by David Fletcher, cloth. First edition. Of a 250 copy limited edition, an extra copy that is not numbered and is signed by the artist David Fletcher and in his hand marked "Complimentary Copy." Also inscribed "To Richard [Fawcett] / Best Wishes / David." Reprint of the scarce 1926 edition which was a vanity publication by Pamely. Collects Pamely's entire output of fiction. Brian Stableford calls the stories "grotesque and gaudy, almost hallucinatory in their nightmarishness. They are heavily stylized and insistently morbid, but all the more vivid for their insistent morbidity." The stories were influenced by the turn of the century "[English] Decadent style;" several of the tales show the influence of Poe. New foreword by Brian Stableford and an afterword by Richard Dalby. Item #22895
THE EXECUTOR AND OTHER GHOST STORIES.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects forty stories. Ghost fiction. This includes his tales featuring Father O'Connor, as well as stories featuring Mr Batchel, E. G. Swain's Vicar of Stoneground. Collects his previously published fiction from many small press appearances and several new stories written for this volume. Item #22894
RANDALLS ROUND. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 400 copies. Reprint of the rare 1929 edition. Eight page introduction new to this edition by Richard Dalby. Item #22893
CONFERENCE WITH THE DEAD: TALES OF SUPERNATURAL TERROR. Introduction by Ramsey Campbell.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The author's second collection of supernatural tales (and first in hardcover), preceded by UNDER THE CRUST (1993). Includes a vampire tale, "The Break." Introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-221. Item #22892
UNDER THE CRUST: SUPERNATURAL TALES OF BUXTON.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collection of supernatural tales. Title story won World Fantasy Best Novella award in 1994 (there was a self published 500-copy paperbound edition in 1993). New introduction by Lamsley. "Memorably atmospheric stories that juxtapose simple smalltown lives with awesome supernatural horrors." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-79. Item #22891
THE STONEGROUND GHOST TALES: COMPILED FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF THE REVEREND ROLAND BATCHEL, VICAR OF THE PARISH. Introduction by Cardinal Cox and a Tailpiece by Jack Adrian.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 400 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Reprints the contents of the 1912 Heffer & Sons edition with new introduction by Cardinal Cox, afterword by Jack Adrian, and Obituary of Swain reprinted from THE PETERBOROUGH ADVERTISER, 3 February 1938. Nine ghost stories in the tradition of and dedicated to M. R. James. " - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 170. "... extremely rare collection ... resolutely in the James antiquarian mode ... In his dedication Swain calls James 'the indulgent parent of such tastes as these pages indicate'; James could not have asked for more delectable progeny." – Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-238. Item #22890
THE ROSE OF DEATH AND OTHER MYSTERIOUS DELUSIONS. Edited, with an Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, [1997]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects eight supernatural tales including Hawthorne's early vampire classic, "Ken's Mystery." Item #22889
UNHOLY RELICS. Introduction by Reg Meuross.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collection of supernatural tales. Reprint of the 1947 Edward Arnold edition with new "introduction" by Reg Meuross. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 470. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 113. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-85. Bleiler (1978), p. 56. Reginald 03812. Item #22888
THE ALABASTER HAND AND OTHER GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Michael Cox.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 250 copies. New edition of this short story collection first published by Dennis Dobson Ltd in 1949. This edition adds a foreword by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden and introduction by Michael Cox. "Unusual and subtle stories, lacking the climactic punch of James's works but effective in their own understated way." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-150. "The one writer who comes closest to inheriting the mantle of M. R. James." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 136. The third Ash-Tree Press book and their second hardcover publication. Item #22887
![SELECTED LETTERS 1932-1934 [Volume 4]. Howard Phillips Lovecraft.](/pictures/thumb/22884.jpg?v=1536874139)
SELECTED LETTERS 1932-1934 [Volume 4].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1976. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Edited by August Derleth and James Turner. Item #22884
![SELECTED LETTERS 1929-1931 [Volume 3]. Howard Phillips Lovecraft.](/pictures/thumb/22883.jpg?v=1536874137)
SELECTED LETTERS 1929-1931 [Volume 3].
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Item #22883
![SELECTED LETTERS 1925-1929 [Volume 2]. Howard Phillips Lovecraft.](/pictures/thumb/22882.jpg?v=1536874137)
SELECTED LETTERS 1925-1929 [Volume 2].
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1968 [i.e. 1975]. Octavo, cloth. Second printing. Edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-64. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 7-43. Item #22882
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. 3014 copies printed. Collects four novels, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG,' THE GHOST PIRATES, and THE NIGHT LAND, with introductory essay by H. C. Koenig and bibliography by A. Langley Searles. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-88; 3-91; and 3-92. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 744-48; I, pp. 143-45; II, pp. 601-04; and III, pp. 1105-10. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-103; 3-105; 3-106; and 3-110. BOATS and HOUSE in Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 96-7. HOUSE is Jones and Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books 29. Item #22880
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. 3014 copies printed. Collects four novels, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG,' THE GHOST PIRATES, and THE NIGHT LAND, with introductory essay by H. C. Koenig and bibliography by A. Langley Searles. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-88; 3-91; and 3-92. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 744-48; I, pp. 143-45; II, pp. 601-04; and III, pp. 1105-10. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-103; 3-105; 3-106; and 3-110. BOATS and HOUSE in Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 96-7. HOUSE is Jones and Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books 29. Item #22879
DISCLOSURES IN SCARLET.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1972. Octavo, illustration by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. Collects seventeen stories. Tymm: Horror Literature 4-122. Item #22878
THE RIM OF THE UNKNOWN.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-three stories first published in the pulps between 1927 and 1956, most from science fiction magazines of the 1950s. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-677. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-156. Item #22877
THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS ... Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1939. Large octavo, pp. [ivi] vii [viii-x] xii-xiv [1-2] 3-553 [554: blank] [555: colophon] [556-558: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 1268 copies printed. The first collection of Lovecraft's writings and the first Arkham House book. "...his works remain one of the most remarkable literary products of their day and an enormously influential contribution to the genre, their influence extending not only to Lovecraft's many correspondents but to such significant modern writers as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-132. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-680. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-132. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1040. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 43. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-162. See Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-61. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 97-101 and III, pp. 1284-88. Joshi I-A-15. Item #22876
THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS ... Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1939. Large octavo, pp. [ivi] vii [viii-x] xii-xiv [1-2] 3-553 [554: blank] [555: colophon] [556-558: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 1268 copies printed. The first collection of Lovecraft's writings and the first Arkham House book. "...his works remain one of the most remarkable literary products of their day and an enormously influential contribution to the genre, their influence extending not only to Lovecraft's many correspondents but to such significant modern writers as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-132. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-680. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-132. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1040. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 43. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-162. See Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-61. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 97-101 and III, pp. 1284-88. Joshi I-A-15. Item #22875
BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP ... Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1943. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. The second omnibus collection of Lovecraft's tales and other material. The fourth book issued by Arkham House. 1217 copies printed (the earlier companion volume, THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS [1939], had a larger print run). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1041. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-158. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-132. Joshi I-A-17. Item #22874