Horror & Supernatural
STRANGE TALES [SECOND SELECTION].
London: Utopian Publications Ltd., n.d., [1946]. Small octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Alva Rogers, pictorial wrappers, stapled. The second of two issues published. Most of the stories were reprinted from WEIRD TALES. Fiction by John Beynon Harris, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch (two tales, one as Bloch, the other as "Tarleton Fiske"), H. P. Lovecraft ("Cool Air") and others. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Volume 1, p. 3. Parnell, Monthly Terrors, p. 202. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 625-26. Tuck (1982), p. 596.
STRANGE TALES [FIRST SELECTION].
London: Utopian Publications Ltd., n.d., [1946]. Small octavo, single issue, cover by H.W. Perl, pictorial wrappers, stapled. This the variant cover by Perl. The first of two issues published. Most of the stories were reprinted from WEIRD TALES. Fiction by Jack Williamson, Robert Bloch (as "Tarleton Fiske"), Clark Ashton Smith, Ray Bradbury and others. This was allegedly Bradbury's first U.K. magazine appearance. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Volume 1, p. 3. Parnell, Monthly Terrors, p. 202. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 625-26. Tuck (1982), p. 596.
TALES OF THE FRIGHTENED. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Republic Features Syndicate, Inc., 1956. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial and printed wrappers. Digest magazine. The only two issues of this short lived magazine. Each issue contained all original stories with authors Michael Avallone, James Harvey, John Jakes, John Wyndham, John Christopher, Hal Ellson, A. Bertram Chandler, Mack Reynolds and others. "...clearly the very magazine that a nation of Weird Tales denied readers had been waiting for." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 557-558. Sales were good but the pending demise of the mammoth distributing firm American News Company put them out of business. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 649-650.
MORE NOT AT NIGHT (NOT AT NIGHT SERIES).
London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., [1926]. Octavo, original red boards, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Second volume in the Anthology series "Not At Night". Most first published in Weird Tales magazine. Includes fiction by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., B.W. Sliney, W.J. Stamper, Galen C. Colin, Edith Lyle Ragsdale, Sewell Peaslee Wright, Donald Edward Keyhoe, Seabury Quinn, Stewart Van Der Veer, Will Smith and R.J. Robbins, Raoul Lenoir, Frank Belknap Long, Jr., H. Thompson Rich, August Derleth, A.W. Kapfer. The Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-195.
HARVEST HOME.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...is the best of the 'fertility cult' novels by a wide margin." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-305. Basis for a television production "The Dark Secret of Harvest Home." Barron (ed), Fantasy & Horror (1999) 6-375. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 690-94. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-210. Winter list, p. 271.
GHOST STORIES.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-288 [289-296: ads], original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories, four of which appear here for the first time in a book. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1644. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-213. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14764.
TERROR AT NIGHT: 13 TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo, cover art by George Mayers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Books 110. Collects thirteen stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Thomas Burke, H. R. Wakefield, Ambrose Bierce, E. F. Benson, and others.
CASTLEVIEW.
New York: TOR, [1990]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by Wolfe on the title page. Dark fantasy set in present day Castleview, IL, involving a ghostly castle, which once belonged to Morgan le Fay. Good versus evil and the Arthurian legend come into play.
AN EVIL GUEST.
New York: TOR, [2008]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance bound manuscript (proof). Horror novel with noirish mystery elements with a dash of Lovecraft.