Horror & Supernatural
NIGHT VOICES: STRANGE STORIES ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5.
THE LOST.
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Vampire novel set in Transylvania. "An atmospheric variation on the vampire theme that pays homage to Stoker's DRACULA..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-15.
PANICS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES.
London: Philip Allan, [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-241 [242-254: ads] [255-256: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Original anthology collecting twelve stories by Elliott O’Donnell, Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), and others. Part of the classic fourteen volume "Creeps" series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 11164. Not in Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction.
SHUDDERS: A COLLECTION OF UNEASY TALES.
London: Philip Allan, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-254 [255-256: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Second book of the "Creeps" series. Collects eleven stories, several original to this collection, by H. R. Wakefield, Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell, Birkin (as "Charles Lloyd"), and others. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1475. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 13049.
THE WOLVES OF GOD AND OTHER FEY STORIES...
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1921]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-328, original decorated tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Collects fifteen supernatural stories written by Blackwood, all but one expanded from story ideas by Wilson (the original Swede in "The Willows"), including the classic tales "Running Wolf," "The Decoy," and "The Empty Sleeve." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Supernatural Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 201. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01412. Ashley A.20.1 (binding variant 1).
DAY AND NIGHT STORIES.
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1917]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-332, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Collects fifteen supernatural stories including the excellent "The Other Wing" and "A Victim of Higher Space," the last John Silence story. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 189. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 214. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 34. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-28. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01379. Ashley A.16.2.
THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv] [1] 2-316 + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "Autumn 1906" inserted at rear, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in black, red and white, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The author's first book. Collects ten stories. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 175. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1442-43. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-30. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01383. Ashley A.1.1.
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.
PAN'S GARDEN: A VOLUME OF NATURE STORIES ...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi [xii] [1-2] 3-530 [531: tail piece] [532: printer's imprint] [533-536: ads] + 8-page undated publisher's catalogue headed "NEW / MACMILLAN / FICTION" inserted at rear, illustrated with drawings by W. Graham Robertson, original pictorial olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black. First edition. Collection of short fiction including, "The Man Whom the Trees Loved," perhaps Blackwood's most effective short story. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 182. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-35. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01396. Ashley A.9.1.
SHOCKS.
London: Grayson & Grayson, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-8] 9-300 [301-302: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained green. First 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.41.1.
TONGUES OF FIRE AND OTHER SKETCHES ...
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, MCMXXIV (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.
FAREWELL SUMMER.
[New York]: William Morrow An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A sequel to the novel DANDELION WINE. The first chapter, entitled also entitled "Farewell Summer" appeared in THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY (1980).
THE HALLOWEEN TREE.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, [1988]. Octavo, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, illustrated boards. Later edition, library binding. Inscribed and signed with a drawing by Bradbury to two well known fans on the front free end paper, dated 12/2/88. While trick or treating, a group of boys travel through time to save a friend and learn the origins of Halloween.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Publications, 2001. Octavo, cover painting by Ray Bradbury, imitation leather. Limited and expanded edition. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and Clive Barker, author of the afterword. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and by Clive Barker (who writes the afterword). New edition, first limited, of Bradbury's first book. Edited by Donn Albright, nine page new introduction by Bradbury. This edition also includes four stories, contemporary to the rest of the contents but not in the original edition, archival material and an afterword by Clive Barker. Wrap around dust jacket is an original painting by Bradbury. Includes "Time Intervening" by Ray Bradbury, a numbered chapbook and a CD of interviews conducted by Donn Albright, both accompanied some but not all copies. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
WHO GOES THERE?: SEVEN TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Classic collection of stories first published under Campbell's pseudonym, Don A. Stuart, in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION between 1934 and 1938. "These short stories are much better than the author's novel-length space operas, and constitute a fascinating body of work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-13. The title story has been filmed twice, the first in 1951 as "The Thing From Another World," one of the classic Science Fiction films of the 1950s (with James Arness in the title role), and by John Carpenter in 1982 as "The Thing." See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-211. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 2003-07.
THROUGH THE WALLS.
[Milnrow, Rochdale, Lancs. The British Fantasy Society, 1981.]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. BFS Booklet, number 5.
MIST AND OTHER GHOST STORIES.
Sherborne, Dorset: Sundial Supernatural, [2015]. Octavo, boards. New edition. 265 copies publlished. New introduction by Richard Dalby. Reprints the contents of the scarce 1928 Hutchinson edition. "Thirteen ghost stories, understated yet powerful, often with a subdued eroticism running just beneath the surface. An interesting collection that should be better known, comparable to the work of May Sinclair or Eleanor Scott. Certainly a contrast to Crompton's children's books." - Robert Knowlton.
THE WHITE WITCH OF ROSEHALL.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-286 [287: blank] [288: printer's imprint]. original black cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. Historical fiction set on Jamaica in 1831 of voodoo magic and vampirism. "Competently written, ethnographically interesting in it description of plantation life. - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 511. Laid in is a magazine clipping from 1997 with some background Annie Palmer "the White Witch of Rose Hall" and mansion of Rose Hall in Jamaica, now considered haunted. Bleiler (1978), p. 59. Reginald 04059.
THE SCARLET SEAL: A TALE OF THE BORGIAS. By Dick Donovan [pseudonym].
London: John Long, 1902. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8-312 + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "October, 1902" inserted at rear, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in red, white and black, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. A historical romance in which a witch's curse appears to be fulfilled. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 193. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992).
THE DEATH-MASK AND OTHER GHOSTS.
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-321 [322-324: ads], original red boards, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The author's only collection of supernatural fiction. "In his famous essay 'Some Remarks on Ghost Stories' (Bookman Christmas Number, 1929), M. R. James devoted one paragraph to recent collections, beginning with A. M. Burrage's SOME GHOST STORIES and H. R. Wakefield's THEY RETURN AT EVENING. 'Going back a few year's I light on Mrs. Everett's THE DEATH-MASK, of a rather quieter tone on the whole, but with some excellently conceived stories,' he wrote, before briefly mentioning the tales of Robert Hugh Benson - 'too ecclesiastical' - and the 'rather over-technically '"occult"' adventures of Flaxman Low by Kate & Hesketh Prichard and John Silence by Algernon Blackwood. In retrospect, Mrs. H. D. Everett's collection has become a much rarer volume than any of the contemporary titles listed by MRJ, and very few copies are known to exist today. Unlike Burrage and Wakefield, her tales are much closer in style (although several are set in the First World War, and quite modern in context) to the great 19th century women writers of ghost stories, notably Mary E. Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, and Mrs. J. H. Riddell... These fourteen original ghost stories were enthusiastically received by readers and critics alike ... THE DEATH-MASK was the first in a long line of supernatural collections published by Philip Allan. Its initial success must have encouraged him to issue THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE by 'Christopher Blayre' [Edward Heron-Allen] in 1921... and many more for the same company ... When Philip Allan inaugurated his 'Creeps' series in 1932, he revived two of Mrs. Everett's best stories - 'THE DEATH-MASK' in SHIVERS, and 'The Crimson Blind' in SHUDDERS -- both were reprinted in the 'Creeps' Omnibus three years later." - Richard Dalby. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, 76. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 615. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 286. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, pp. 194-95. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04972.
GHOSTLY TALES.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1896. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-320 [note: first leaf is a blank], sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Fred Hyland, original decorated sage green cloth, front panel stamped in red and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. An important late Victorian collection of ghost stories similar to those of Mrs. Baldwin and Mrs. Molesworth. "A rare collection of high quality Victorian ghost stories, which seems several decades ahead of its time. Fitzclarence's ghost stories are usually more swiftly paced than those of her contemporaries and this, coupled with a plain and direct writing style, have allowed the tales to retain their interest and bear reexamination by new generations of readers. Several of the author's stories have been revived by anthologists such as Hugh Lamb looking for powerful but less familiar supernatural material." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 219. According to Robert Knowlton, the stories are "quite nicely written." Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992).
THE GRAVEYARD BOOK VOLUME 1...
[New York]: Harper, [2014]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Graphic novel adaptation of Gaimen's Newberry Medal award book. Illustrations by Kevin Nowlan, P. Craig Russell, Tony Harris, Scott Hampton, Galen Showman, Jill Thompson and Stephen B. Scott.
THE HAUNTED MAN.
London: Eldon Press Ltd., n.d., [1951]. Octavo, original light blue cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. First publication in book form of a novel originally published in 1937 in DETECTIVE WEEKLY, a British pulp. "A yarn that deserves to achieve a horror certificate. Little Mr. Penfold, typical city clerk, complete with bowler hat and rolled umbrella is kidnapped by a gang of crooks who wanted information about the Safe Deposit where he was employed. He falls into the hands of a mad surgeon who operates on his brain and converts the inoffensive, mild little Mr. Penfold into a man of evil." - jacket blurb. Reginald 12300. Hubin (1994), p. 319.
THE TOE AND OTHER TALES.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-8] 9-251 [252: blank] [note: two leaves preceding title leaf are blanks], publisher's burgundy vertically ribbed cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. Inscribed by Harvey and dated 1926 to a close personal friend as he uses the salutation "Con Amore." The recipient was likely at one point a secretary for George Sylvester Viereck as the inscription ends with "...in memory of terrible days / working for / G. S. V." Collects eleven stories first published in THE CAVALIER, THE SMART SET, and elsewhere. "Short stories, mostly surprisingly erotic for the period ... Unusual stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 766. Bleiler (1978), p. 95. Reginald 06881.
STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES (with "The Glass Floor" and "The Reaper's Image.")
New York: Health Knowledge Inc., 1967 and 1969. Octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. These two issues include King's first professional story appearances, "The Glass Floor" and "The Reaper's Image."