Horror
BLACK MAGIC: A TALE OF THE RISE AND FALL OF ANTICHRIST.
London: Alston Rivers, Ltd., 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-390 [391: blank] [392: ad] [note first leaf is a blank preceding half title leaf] + 24-page publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1908 inserted at rear, verso of half title leaf and recto of title leaf printed in black and green, original pictorial gray cloth, front panel stamped in gold, black and blue, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The author's first weird novel. "... a rousing historical melodrama in which the sorceress Ursula becomes Pope Joan, and very nearly the Antichrist. It remains one of the best diabolist thrillers." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 50. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-32. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 245. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 38. Bleiler (1978), p. 28. Reginald 01698.
DARK ANN AND OTHER STORIES...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-333 [334: blank] [335-342: ads] [343-344: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light blue. First edition. Mixed collection of short fiction with several supernatural stories, including the title story, “very nicely told with a good balance of sentiment and restraint” (Bleiler) and “The Accident,” “… a neat posthumous fantasy” (Barron) and “… a skillful handling of an old theme” (Bleiler). Ashley, Who’s Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 41. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 246. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 50-1. Bleiler (1978), p. 28. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 95. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 90.
KECKSIES AND OTHER TWILIGHT TALES.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4391 copies printed. Collects twelve stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 248. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-41. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33.
KECKSIES AND OTHER TWILIGHT TALES.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4391 copies printed. Collects twelve stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 248. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-41. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33.
TWILIGHT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL ROMANCES. Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collection of supernatural stories edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
KATASTROPHE.
[New York]: HarperCollins Publishers, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. In regressing a person to a past life, he channels Adolf Hitler. The author's first book.
DANDELION WINE...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo. cloth. First edition. "A bucolic evocation of Bradbury's youth through rose-colored glasses. Though not strictly fantastic, this poetic blend of nostalgia and ever-so-slightly macabre happenings defines the author's view of the past as a country of the bizarre and the wonderful, and is central to Bradbury's fantasy world." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-44. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 19.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3112 copies printed. The author's first book. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3112 copies printed. The author's first book. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line.". Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in year of publication by Bradbury: "FOR / A. Langley Searles / WITH MY VERY BEST WISHES / FROM / RAY BRADBUY / MAY 15, 1947" Searles was a member of first fandom and founded the noted amateur magazine Fantasy Commentator, considered on the earliest fan based academic journals. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Octavo, illustrated by Joseph Mugniani, boards. First edition. Collects the title story and 21 others, including "The Dragon," "Fever Dream," "A Scent of Sarsaparilla," "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed," and "The Day It Rained Forever." Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #260.
A MEMORY OF MURDER.
[New York]: A Dell Book, [1984.]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 15559. Paperback original. Collects fifteen stories first published in the 1940s in the detective and horror pulps.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B2, probable second state with publisher's logo printed correctly at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...remains the quintessential Bradbury fiction." – Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1769-73. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-51.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
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TWICE TWENTY-TWO: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN [and] A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bradbury dated in the year of publication. Combined edition of the two volumes, The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine For Melancholy. Uncommon, more so in condition.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper: "Stanley! / Ray Bradbury / 3/28/83." Stanley is Stanley Simon, long time New York area science fiction book collector. Collects 23 stories.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed and dated by Bradbury on the front free end paper. Collects 23 stories. Published as a paperback original with a small number of copies done in hardcover.
THE COLD EMBRACE AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects eighteen stories with "introduction" by Richard Dalby and "Miss Braddon at Home," an article by Mary Angela Dickens first published in WINDSOR MAGAZINE, September 1897. "Whereas the supernatural and weird tales of Charlotte Riddell, Rhoda Broughton, and Margaret Oliphant were published individually in thematic collections during the late Victorian (and Edwardian) era, this never happened with Mary E. Braddon and Amelia B. Edwards, two of the finest ghost story writers of the nineteenth century, whose supernatural work was sprinkled throughout various rare books and magazines, which today are virtually impossible to obtain. This gap is now filled by the present volume, together with its recent companion THE PHANTOM COACH by Amelia Edwards. Thanks to their appearance in THE SUPERNATURAL OMNIBUS (edited by Montague Summers in 1931), Mary Braddon's first two ghost stories, 'The Cold Embrace' and 'Eveline's Visitant,' have regularly been reprinted in later anthologies, and remain her best known contributions to the genre. Only four other supernatural tales by Braddon have been revived in the past two decades, a deficiency now remedied here . The stories in the present volume are arranged in strict chronological order from 1860 to 1896 . In addition to all of Braddon's traditional ghost stories, I have added three of her best borderline fantasies . but I have omitted some of the less satisfactory 'dream' stories ." - Dalby.
THE COLD EMBRACE AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects eighteen stories with "introduction" by Richard Dalby and "Miss Braddon at Home," an article by Mary Angela Dickens first published in WINDSOR MAGAZINE, September 1897. "Whereas the supernatural and weird tales of Charlotte Riddell, Rhoda Broughton, and Margaret Oliphant were published individually in thematic collections during the late Victorian (and Edwardian) era, this never happened with Mary E. Braddon and Amelia B. Edwards, two of the finest ghost story writers of the nineteenth century, whose supernatural work was sprinkled throughout various rare books and magazines, which today are virtually impossible to obtain. This gap is now filled by the present volume, together with its recent companion THE PHANTOM COACH by Amelia Edwards. Thanks to their appearance in THE SUPERNATURAL OMNIBUS (edited by Montague Summers in 1931), Mary Braddon's first two ghost stories, 'The Cold Embrace' and 'Eveline's Visitant,' have regularly been reprinted in later anthologies, and remain her best known contributions to the genre. Only four other supernatural tales by Braddon have been revived in the past two decades, a deficiency now remedied here . The stories in the present volume are arranged in strict chronological order from 1860 to 1896 . In addition to all of Braddon's traditional ghost stories, I have added three of her best borderline fantasies . but I have omitted some of the less satisfactory 'dream' stories ." - Dalby.
CASTLE TERROR.
New York: Lancer, 1965. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. A gothic novel.