Horror
PETALS ON THE WIND.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1980]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second novel and sequel to FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC. Review slip laid in.
VARNEY THE VAMPIRE OR THE FEAST OF BLOOD...with a new introduction by E .F. Bleiler.
New York: Dover Publications Inc., [1972]. Octavo, two volumes, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. paperback edition. Trade paperback format. Facsimile reprint of the famous penny dreadful first published in London in 1847 by E. Lloyd. Excellent introduction by Bleiler in which he provides some basic history of penny dreadfuls and makes a case that the author of the book was James Malcolm Rymer and not Thomas Peckett Prest. "A very long Victorian Gothic novel, unquestionably the most famous of the Lloyd bloods... A striking example of low-level popular fiction for the working classes (and adolescents) but not deserving of any praise." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1629. Baron (ed), Horror Literature 2-87. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-81. Bleiler (1978), p. 172. Reginald 14580.
GHOST STORIES AND OTHER QUEER TALES.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., n.d., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-256, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange. First collected edition. An omnibus volume combining UNCANNY STORIES (1916) and MORE UNCANNY STORIES (1918), which in turn were selected from PEARSON'S NOVEL MAGAZINE. Includes two early stories by noted mystery writer Roy Vickers; also a death premonition story by Theo. Douglas (Mrs. H. D. Everett). Routine commercial work of World War I-era. On the plus side, it should be noted that these are stories seldom encountered elsewhere. "Mostly crude horror." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 690. Bleiler (1978), p. 7. Reginald 05932.
TERRIBLE TALES: SPANISH.
Paris, London, Chicago, New York, Washington: Brentano's, n.d., [1890]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-178 [179-180: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original gray cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges trimmed. First edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Author of all these tales is Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870), known as "the Spanish Poe," the most famous nineteenth century Spanish writer of supernatural fiction, also very influential on Latin American fiction. This is one of only two English-language collections extant, the other being the Romantic Legends of Spain (Crowell 1909). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1585. Bleiler (1978), p. 37. Reginald 13946.
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
London: John Murray, [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Story collection with some supernatural content.
NEW TALES OF HORROR BY EMINENT AUTHORS ...
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-15] 16-255 [256] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and free endpaper], true endpapers at rear, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Partially original anthology anonymously edited by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (a.k.a. "John Gawsworth"), collecting thirty crime and supernatural stories, seventeen of which appear here for the first time, by Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, E. H. Visiak, M. P. Shiel, John Gawsworth, Frederick Carter, Hugh MacDiarmid, Nugent Barker, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1230. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 2. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 10639.
NEW TALES OF HORROR BY EMINENT AUTHORS ...
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-15] 16-255 [256] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and free endpaper], true endpapers at rear, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Partially original anthology anonymously edited by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (a.k.a. "John Gawsworth"), collecting thirty crime and supernatural stories, seventeen of which appear here for the first time, by Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, E. H. Visiak, M. P. Shiel, John Gawsworth, Frederick Carter, Hugh MacDiarmid, Nugent Barker, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1230. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 2. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 10639.
THRILLS: TWENTY SPECIALLY SELECTED NEW STORIES OF CRIME, MYSTERY AND HORROR ...
London: Associated Newspapers Ltd., n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] 11-320, twelve full-page illustrations by Norman Keene, original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green. First edition. Partially original anthology collecting twenty crime and supernatural stories by Thomas Burke, John Gawsworth, Edgar Jepson, M. P. Shiel. L. A. G. Strong, E. H. Visiak, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1599. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).
THE GRIM CARETAKER.
London: Strothers Bookshop's Ltd, n.d., [1944]. Octavo, pp. [1-2: front covers] [3] 4-49 [50] [51-52: rear cover] pictorial wrappers. First edition. The second of three paperbacks published in 1944 featuring Lucian Carolus, Professor of Archaeology and scholar of the supernatural, an occult investigator in the vein of Hodgson’s Thomas Carnacki. In this book Carolus investigates a case of demonic possession at an isolated English estate. Highlights include a mysterious manservant with mesmeric powers and a battle with possessed mouse. Good pulp fun of the period. THERE WERE NO ASPER LADIES, the first Carolus adventure involves a case of vampirism and the final Carolus title, UNCANNY ADVENTURES, is a collection of 5 short stories which include werewolves and devil worshippers. Day, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature in Paperbound Books, p. 3. Reginald 00531. Hubin (1994), p. 32. Not in Bleiler.
THERE WERE NO ASPER LADIES.
London: The Mitre Press, n.d., [1944]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-126 [127-128: ads], pictorial wrappers. First edition. "The first of the Lucian Carolus occult detective stories, a full-length novel of vampirism." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 23. Bleiler (1978), p.11. Reginald 00532. Hubin (1994), p. 32.
PHANTOM PERFUMES AND OTHER SHADES: MEMORIES OF GHOST STORIES MAGAZINE. Introduction by Mike Ashley.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Collection of seventeen supernatural stories from the pulp, GHOST STORIES MAGAZINE (1926-1931). Foreword by Hugh Cave, checklist and index to the magazine by Ashley.
AYLMER VANCE: GHOST SEER. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The first volume in a series from Ash Tree (Occult Detectives Library). Collects eight occult detective stories, all first published in THE WEEKLY TALE-TELLER between 4 July 1914 and 22 August 1914, with introduction by editor Jack Adrian.
AYLMER VANCE: GHOST SEER. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The first volume in a series from Ash Tree (Occult Detectives Library). Collects eight occult detective stories, all first published in THE WEEKLY TALE-TELLER between 4 July 1914 and 22 August 1914, with introduction by editor Jack Adrian.
THIS MORTAL COIL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-245 [246: colophon], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 2609 copies printed. Collection of seven stories and two novelettes. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-5. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 54. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-10. Bleiler (1978), p. 11. Reginald 00597.
PALIMPSEST.
[London]: Quartet Crime, [1981]. Ocatvo, boards. First edition. Eerie novel concerning a missing person, Inspector Henry Beaumont. (This is perhaps a review copy, no written material on front flap).
PALIMPSEST.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1981]. Ocatvo, boards. First U.S. edition. Eerie novel concerning a missing person, with Inspector Henry Beaumont. Publisher promotional flyer laid in.
BEAST MARKS.
Willimantic, Connecticut: Mark V. Ziesing, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Attanasio and artists Rick DeMarco and Rich Schindler. Collects seven short stories, including a Sherlock Holmes story.
THE SATAN SLEUTH NO. 1: FALLEN ANGEL.
[New York]: Warner Paperback Library, [1974]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Warner Paperback Library 75-676. Paperback original. With his wife murdered, wealthy Philip St. George goes after after the killers who are Satan worshippers. Hubin, p. 38.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company (later Avon Book Company, Inc., Avon Publishing Co., Inc., and Avon Novels, Inc.), 1947-52. Small octavo 18 issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. A complete set of the Avon Fantasy Reader which consists of 18 issues. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisherJoseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine an anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. The story selection came from a wide range of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, All-Story and Argosy, Thrill Book, Astounding and Amazing as well as stories from hardcover book publications. Authors included William Hope Hodgson, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, A. Merritt, Algernon Blackwood, C. L. Moore, Fritz Leiber and many more. A few original stories were printed, including A. E. Van Vogt, Carl Jacobi, A. Merritt, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard and most notably "Ylla" by Ray Bradbury, part of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 124-132.
THE TALISMAN.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Horror novel.
DELIVER ME FROM EVA.
Hollywood: Murray & Gee, Inc., 1946. pp. [1-10] 11-237 [238-240: blank], original brown pebble-grain cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Short pulpy mad-scientist/superman horror/sci-fi novel, selected by Forrest Ackerman as his contribution (#48) to Jones and Newman's Horror: 100 Best Books. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 48. Reginald 00711. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 144.
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11.
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11.