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. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. (22895). Item #22895
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