Anthology
CRIMES, CREEPS AND THRILLS: FORTY-FIVE NEW STORIES OF DETECTION, HORROR AND ADVENTURE BY EMINENT MODERN AUTHORS ...
London: E. H. Samuel, n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xv [xvi] 1-560, 30 full-page unattributed black and white illustrations in the text, original light blue cloth, front cover ruled in blind, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Important 560-page partially original anthology collecting forty-five adventure, crime and supernatural stories by E. H. Visiak, Richard Middleton, M. P. Shiel, H. H. Ewers, Frederick Carter, Edgar Jepson, Nugent Barker, and others. Contents include the only appearance in print of Visiak's "The Shadow," a flawed novel "reworking on a symbolic level of concepts in Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship" [Bleiler (1983)]. "Over and above their general high quality ... [Gawsworth's] large anthologies of horror and supernatural Fiction –- ranging from quality ghost stories to mediocre contes cruels –- are notable for the amount of original material they contain, much of this coming from authors of considerable interest, including Oswell Blakeston, Thomas Burke, Frederick Carter, Louis Golding, Edgar Jepson, Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, Eimar O'Duffy, M. P. Shiel and E. H. Visiak –- as well as Gawsworth himself, none of whose short stories have been collected separately. His early stories, like ABOVE THE RIVER (1931) and 'Scylla and Charybdis' (1934) are wistful nature fantasies in the style of Algernon Blackwood, but his later 'collaborations' with Shiel, Visiak and particularly Jepson ('The Shifting Growth' 1936, included in this collection) are more sinister and portentous, shadowing death." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 392. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 452. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 9. Bleiler (1978), p. 80.
FULL SPECTRUM 2.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1989]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting twenty-seven stories by Edward Bryant, Vonda N. McIntyre, David Brin, Mike McQuay, Patricia A. McKillip, Greg Bear, Michael Swanwick, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others.
ISSAC ASIMOV'S TOMORROW'S VOICES. Collected by the Editors of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
New York: The Dial Press / Davis Publications, Inc., [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting fifteen stories by Jayge Carr, David Brin, Mary R. Gentle and others, and a poem by Bruce Boston.
THE HUGO WINNERS: VOLUME 4 [1976-1979].
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collect thirteen stories. Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Joe Haldeman, Spider and Jean Robinson, Joan D. Vinge, Harlan Ellison, John Varley, Poul Anderson and C.J. Cherryh.
THE HUGO WINNERS: VOLUME 4 [1976-1979].
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collect thirteen stories. Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Joe Haldeman, Spider and Jean Robinson, Joan D. Vinge, Harlan Ellison, John Varley, Poul Anderson and C.J. Cherryh.
FOUR FUTURES: FOUR ORIGINAL NOVELLAS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of four stories based on themes suggested by Isaac Asimov.
THE SCIENCE FICTION WEIGHT-LOSS BOOK.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1983]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by R. A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg, Jack Vance, William Tenn, Kit Reed, Stephen King, and others. Includes "Gladys's Gregory" by John Anthony West and other dystopian tales.
100 GREAT FANTASY SHORT SHORT STORIES.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. One hundred very short stories, most 2-5 pages, longest 6 pages. Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny, Jane Yolen, Clark Ashton Smith, Avram Davidson, H.P. Lovecraft, James Sallis, Katherine Maclean, and many others.
THE GHOST-BOOK: SIXTEEN NEW STORIES OF THE UNCANNY ...
London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-318 [319: printer's imprint] [320: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green. First edition. The first volume of "one of the most distinguished series of ghost story anthologies in this century." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 14. Original anthology "now recognized for its many classic contents ..." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 208. Includes "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence as well as stories by May Sinclair, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Mary Webb, and others. "An excellent collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 55. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-6. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-244. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 39. Bleiler (1978), p. 11. Reginald 00593.
THE GHOST-BOOK: SIXTEEN NEW STORIES OF THE UNCANNY.
London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-318 [319: printer's imprint] [320: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green. First edition. The first volume of "one of the most distinguished series of ghost story anthologies in this century." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 14. Original anthology "now recognized for its many classic contents ..." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 208. Includes "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence as well as stories by May Sinclair, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Mary Webb, and others. "An excellent collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 55. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-6. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-244. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 39. Bleiler (1978), p. 11. Reginald 00593.
THE GHOST-BOOK: SIXTEEN NEW STORIES OF THE UNCANNY.
London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-318 [319: printer's imprint] [320: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green. First edition. The first volume of "one of the most distinguished series of ghost story anthologies in this century." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 14. Original anthology "now recognized for its many classic contents ..." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 208. Includes "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence as well as stories by May Sinclair, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Mary Webb, and others. "An excellent collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 55. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-6. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-244. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 39. Bleiler (1978), p. 11. Reginald 00593.
ASTOUNDING STORIES: THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1990]. Octavo, 3 volumes, full leather, a.e.g. First editions. A three volume retrospective collection of fiction by Heinlein, Leinster, Lovecraft, Hamilton, Schachner, Stuart (J. W. Campbell), de Camp, van Vogt, Asimov, Sturgeon, Clement, Williamson, Padgett, Schmitz, Blish, Russell, Brown, Anderson and Simak. The stories cover the period of 1931-1958, with reproductions of the issue covers.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; David H. Keller, Philip M. Fisher, Jr., Guy Endore, Robert E. Howard, Robert W. Chambers, S. Fowler Wright, and Laurance Manning and Fletcher Pratt. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; P. Schuyler Miller, Thomas Burke, Nelson Bond, Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, Clark Ashton Smith, M. R. James, and A. E. Van Vogt. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; C. L. Moore, William Fryer Harvey, Robert Bloch, Carl Jacobi, Stephen Vincent Benet, Clare Winger Harris, Robert W. Chambers, Frank Owen and C. M. Kornbluth. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; Murray Leinster, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, H. G. Wells, Clark Ashton Smith, H. Russell Wakefield and Lord Dunsany. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, Stephen Marlowe, Jack Vance and others. Tymm and Ashley note in both issues many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, and others. Tymm and Ashley note many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
THE DELIGHTS OF DETECTION.
New York: Criterion Books, [1961]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects seventeen stories presented in three sections; Classic Tales, Modern Tales and Historic Tales. Authors include Dorothy Sayers, R. Austin Freeman, John D. MacDonald, Rex Stout and others.
NEW LEGENDS.
New York: Tor, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Original anthology with sixteen stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, Greg Egan, and others.
THE UNKNOWN FIVE.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-962. Paperback original. Collects five stories, four published in UNKNOWN /UNKNOWN WORLDS pulp magazine. The fifth story by Isaac Asimov, "Author! Author!" was accepted by John W. Campbell for UNKNOWN but the magazine folded before it was published. This is the first publication. Other authors are Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, Cleve Cartmill and Jane Rice.
BOUCHER'S CHOICEST.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best Detective Stories of the Year. Introduction by Allen J. Hubin.
NEBULA AWARD STORIES SEVEN.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1973]. Octavo, cloth.cloth backed boards. Second edition. Collects seven stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Keith Laumer, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, R. A. Lafferty, Harry Harrison and Joanna Russ, and essay by Thomas D. Clareson. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.
CREEPS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES.
London: Philip Allan, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-248 [249-256: ads], original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The first of the fourteen anthologies in the "Creeps" series, all anonymously edited by Charles Birkin. This collection consists of nine stories, several original to this collection, by Tod Robbins, H. R. Wakefield, Elliott O'Donnell, Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), and others. The series, published 1932-1936, comprises CREEPS, HORRORS, MONSTERS, NIGHTMARES, PANICS, POWERS OF DARKNESS, QUAKES, SHIVERS, SHUDDERS, TALES OF DEATH, TALES OF DREAD, TALES OF FEAR, TERRORS, and THRILLS. The fourteen volumes collect 159 stories by Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), Lord Dunsany, Margery Lawrence, Elliott O'Donnell, Tod Robbins, Russell Thorndike, H. Russell Wakefield and many others. "The earlier volumes are all reprint and feature several fine stories by H. Russell Wakefield and Tod Robbins; the later ones are mostly original stories by minor writers, with emphasis on shock value." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. See Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1968, pp. 120-21 for volume-by-volume contents listing. Also see various entries under title in Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, for story summaries. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 35-6 provides information on the series, as well as an overview of Birkin's short fiction. The "Creeps" series, along with the eleven-volume "Not at Night" series (1925-1936) edited by Christine Campbell Thompson, form a major repository of British and American horror fiction, both original and reprint, of the 1920s and 1930s. The former is distinguished from the latter by being more distinctly British in tone, in a sense offering a cruder version of the refined cruelties captured in L. P. Hartley's "The Killing Bottle." Even the more traditional country tales are rife with nasty things that bite. Whereas the "Not at Night" series is very much the English beachhead for the American "Weird Tales" school of horror, the "Creeps" series, under Birkin's editorship, applies a sophisticated gloss to the "raw-heads-and-bloody-bones" tradition of English melodrama (which enjoyed a vigorous stage revival between the wars) with a nod to the Le Theatre Grand-Guignol. Birkin's own sadistic tales follow the example of Andre de Lorde, the greatest of the Grand Guignol playwrights, whose "Waxworks" appears in TERRORS. His editorial tastes thus set a sanguinary tone for the series. English in flavor with perhaps a slight continental aftertaste. This was the "splatterpunk" of the 1930s. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1351. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 11946.
HORRORS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES.
London: Philip Allan, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-249 [250-255: ads] [256: printer's imprint], original green cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Original anthology collecting twelve stories by Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), Elliott O'Donnell and others. Part of the classic fourteen volume "Creeps" series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1598. Carter, The Vampire in Literature, p. 57. Frost, The Monster with a Thousand Faces, p. 86. Bleiler (1948), p. 30. Not in Bleiler (1978). Reginald 14110.