FREAK MUSEUM.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-282 [283-288: ads], original orange cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black. First edition. "Horror thriller about a fascist ideologue who employs a vivisectionist to manufacture murderous freaks for display -- and the young lovers caught in his web of intrigue. Reminiscent of Wells' THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, and strongly attuned to the political climate of the times. Ryan's deadpan humor crops up in a series of Scotland Yard detectives who enter the museum: 'They went up. They never came down again.' Ryan was not fond of authority figures." - Robert Knowlton. [Reference: Sullivan, ed., The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 365. Hubin (1994), p. 710]. Offsetting to first and last two leaves, light wear at extremities, several stress creases to lower right front corner, a very good copy. Scarce. (30735). Item #30735
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