AND THE DARKNESS FALLS.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Lee Manso, two-part cloth. First edition. One of the largest, most extensive anthologies of horror and supernatural fiction published in the 1940s. Collects seventy-two stories and poems by John Buchan, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Oliver Onions, E. F. Benson and many others, with informative and often quite extensive headnotes by Karloff. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 932. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 49. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-276. Bleiler (1978), p. 111. Reginald 08067]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing at corner tips and spine ends, a tiny closed tear at the head of the spine panel. A superb copy and difficult to find in this condition. (30718). Item #30718
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