Horror
INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-368 [369-375: ads] [376: blank], original pebbled green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, fore-edge rough trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. According to Ashley's Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography the British and American editions have the same publication date (A.12, p. 55). Collects five stories.
JIMBO: A FANTASY...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-ix [x] [1-2] 3-258 [259-260: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind. First edition. The author's fourth book and first novel, preceded by three collections of short fiction. "Jimbo is one of the best of Blackwood's studies of the peculiar horrors and ecstasies of childhood." – Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 178. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01391. Ashley A.4.1.
THE LISTENER: AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-350 [351-352: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front stamped in blind and red, spine stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear cover. First edition. This book is found with and without publisher's catalogues inserted at rear, this copy bound without a catalogue. Blackwood's second book and his second collection of short fiction, containing "The Willows," one of the most powerful of all supernatural tales; "The Woman's Ghost Story," an early instance of pity replacing fear in a ghostly encounter; "Max Hensig...", about a confrontation with a diabolical murderer in which alcohol plays a quasi-mystical role; and six other stories. See Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #176.
SHOCKS.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-300 [301-304: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original light green cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Collects fifteen stories. The last collection of new material published in Blackwood's lifetime. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 197. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 216. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-36. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01403. Ashley A.41.2.
TALES OF THE UNCANNY AND SUPERNATURAL.
London and New York: Peter Nevill Limited, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed and dated (1949) by the author on the front free end paper.
TONGUES OF FIRE AND OTHER SKETCHES ...
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-311 [312: blank] [313-320: ads], original pictorial yellow-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First edition. Collects twenty stories and a sketch. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 192. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 215. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-40. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01410. Ashley A.23.1.
THE GOLEM... LEGENDS OF THE GHETTO OF PRAGUE. Translated from the German by Harry Schneiderman. With Prefatory Note by Hans Ludwig Held.
Vienna, Austria: The Golem, [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-247 [248: ads], ten inserted plates, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, printer's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel. First edition in English. Fascinating collection of Golem legends; the primary source of such material in English. Bleiler (1978), p. 26. Reginald 01531.
PSYCHO-PATHS.
New York: Tor, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology. Collects seventeen stories by David Morrell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, William F. Nolan, Brad Lineweaver, Edward D. Hoch, Dennis Etchison, Charles L. Grant and others.
ATOMS AND EVIL.
London: Robert Hale & Company, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Collection of 13 stories. Originally published as a paperback original in 1962.
ATOMS AND EVIL.
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books/Fawcett Publications Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal s1231. Paperback original. Collects thirteen stories. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-26.
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of seventeen short stories, mostly crime, but including several horror stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 211.
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of seventeen short stories, mostly crime, but including several horror stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 211.
DRAGONS AND NIGHTMARES: FOUR SHORT NOVELS.
Baltimore: Mirage, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Collects "A Good Knight's Work," "The Eager Dragon," "Nursemaid to Nightmares" and "Black Barter." Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-39.
FLOWERS FROM THE MOON AND OTHER LUNACIES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publisher, Inc., 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty stories first published in WEIRD TALES, STRANGE STORIES, and ROGUE.
FLOWERS FROM THE MOON AND OTHER LUNACIES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publisher, Inc., 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty stories first published in WEIRD TALES, STRANGE STORIES, and ROGUE.
IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND.
New York: Curtis Books, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
THE KIDNAPER.
New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion Books #185. Paperback original. "...one of the author's own favorites among his work, is THE KIDNAPPER, another first person narrative of a psychopath, cold, clinical, and unsparingly honest in treatment." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
THE OPENER OF THE WAY.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xi [xii] [1-3] 4-309 [310: blank] [311: colophon] [312: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 2065 copies printed. The author's first book, preceded by a 40-page booklet printing four stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-29. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 209. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-30.
PLEASANT DREAMS - NIGHTMARES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories featuring many of his best stories from 1947-1958. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-45. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 210. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-31.
PSYCHO.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1960. Octavo, boards. First British edition. "Psycho is a genre masterpiece which set the pattern for the psychological suspense-horror novel." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-46. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 57.
THE SCARF.
New York: The Dial Press, 1947. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page: "Best wishes-Robert Bloch."
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The Star Stalker (1968). First hardcover edition for all titles (all first printed in paperback). The Will to Kill "tells of a Korean War veteran searching to the secret of his periodic mental blackouts"; "Firebug was the story of a murderous pyromaniac"; "The Stark Stalker, an evocative novel set in Hollywood during the last days of silent movies." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
SEA KISSED.
[London: Utopian Publications Ltd.], n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's scarce first book. A small booklet which collects four Robert Bloch stories; Sea Kissed (written with Henry Kuttner), Lady in Wax, Beetles, and Totem Pole.
SEA KISSED.
[London: Utopian Publications Ltd.], n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's scarce first book. A small booklet which collects four Robert Bloch stories; Sea Kissed (written with Henry Kuttner), Lady in Wax, Beetles, and Totem Pole.
THE SKULL OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1965]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-1247. Paperback original. Signed inscription by Bloch to a well known mystery bookseller and publisher on the inside front cover. Collects seven stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES in the mid-1940s. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-33.