Horror
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 TALISMAN.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Horror novel.
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.
THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND AND OTHER GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Richard Dalby and John Pelan.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprints nine stories from the scarce 1895 edition and one additional that was unpublished.
CRASH.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed bookplate by the author laid in. Filmed in 1996 by David Cronenberg with James Spader and Holly Hunter. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-16.
THE WASP FACTORY.
London: Macmillan, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-19. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 90.
THE WASP FACTORY.
London: Macmillan, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-20. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 90.
A BOOK OF GHOSTS. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 400 copies. Collects the twenty-one stories published in the 1904 Methuen edition and adds two other supernatural tales by Baring- Gould, "A Dead Man's Teeth" and "The Old Woman of Wesel," and a new 13- page introduction by Richard Dalby. "Collection of ghost stories, some dating back to the 1850s. Most are slight tales of apparitions; the most interesting are 'Pomps and Vanities,' a tale of possession; and 'The Merewigs,' a farce in which persons who made no spiritual progress in their last incarnation must now haunt the British Museum." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-6. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 26-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 97. Bleiler (1978), p. 15. Reginald 00865.
BOOKS OF BLOOD V.
Santa Cruz: Scream/Press, 1989. Octavo, imitation leather. First thus. One of 333 numbered copies signed by Barker and artist Harry O. Morris.
BOOKS OF BLOOD Volumes 4-6 (three books).
London and Sydney: Sphere Books Limited, [1985]. Small octavo, three books, pictorial wrappers. First editions. Paperback originals. Each volume signed by Barker to "Tim [Underwood]" and date 30th July 1985. The second set of three volumes of short fiction. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-21.
CABAL.
New York, London, Sydney, Toronto, Tokyo: Poseiden Press, [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition, trade issue. Signed inscription by Barker on the title page. Comprises the title novella and four short fictions (these four comprise volume 6 of the Books of Blood). Cabal was filmed as NIGHTBREED. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-21.
IN THE FLESH.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 5.
IN THE FLESH.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 5.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Signed by the author. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
THE FACE AND THE MASK.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1895]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-250 [251: ads] [252: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by A. Hencke, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, silver top edge, other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A scarce collection of short fiction including "The Doom of London," a catastrophe story, and "The Great Pegram Mystery, a Sherlock Holmes parody. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-8 and (1981) 1-14. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 101. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 126 and 127. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 046. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 28. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 55. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 16. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 51.
FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN: A WINTRY TALE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-103 [104-106: blank]. cloth. First U.S. edition, later printing. Later printing of the first U.S. edition, Scribner's colophon is present on the copyright page, but no "A". Supernatural story with hint of vampirism. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction # 1752.
BEST OF BEAUMONT.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney: Bantam Books, [1982]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Collect twenty-two stories, including several previously unpublished. Introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Christopher Beaumont.
THE HUNGER: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Bantam Books, [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam Books A 1917. Collects seventeen stories.
THE MAGIC MAN: AND OTHER SCIENCE-FANTASY STORIES.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1586. Paperback original. Collect eighteen stories, introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Richard Matheson.