Horror

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991.. 373 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 019212305X Contents: All But Empty - Graham Greene; Lord Beden's Motor - J.B. Harris-Burland; The Tarn - Hugh Walpole; Resurgam - Rina Ramsay; The Railway Carriage - F. Tennyson Jesse; The Be. ll - Beverley Nichols; His Brother's Keeper - W.W. Jacobs; Touch and Go - Sapper; Waxworks - W.L. George; White Spectre - B.L. Jacot; "Tickets, Please!" - D.H. Lawrence; A Torture by Hope - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; A Horrible Fight - L.T. Meade; . T h e Case of Roger Carboyne - H. Greenbough Smith; The Orchestra of Death - Ianthe Jerrold; The Lizard - C.J. Cutcliffe-Hyne; Inexplicable - L.G. Moberly; The Prophetic Camera - L. de Giberne Sieveking; Cavalanci's Curse - Henry A. Hering; The Que. er S to ry of Brownlow's Newspaper - H.G. Wells; The Black Grippe - Edgar Wallace; The Fog - Morley Roberts; The Thames Valley Catastrophe - Grant Allen; A Sense of the Future - Martin Swayne; The Silver Mirror - Arthur Conan Doyle; The Haunted Hou. se - E . N esbit; How It Happened - Arthur Conan Doyle; The Power of Darkness - E. Nesbit; The Horror of the Heights - Arthur Conan Doyle. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling. NF/VG+. more information

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Tom Doherty, New York, (1991), Ist edition.. 279 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "These three stories, each in a strong and original voice, range from the delicately fantastic and disturbing to the gruesomely horrific. All invoke the weird and uncanny sensations of our hidden fears and desires.". Faint remainder stamp to bottom of textblock, light creases to top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price clipped, minor wrinkling at bottom edge of rear panel. VG/VG. more information

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Faber and Faber, (London, 1999), Ist edition.. 126 pp, 8vo, hard cover with pictorial boards (no dust jacket - as issued). Grotesquely humorous b&w drawings by David Roberts. "Robert Galigari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. After a humiliating epis. ode with a bacon butty, Robert realizes just how much he loathes the human race - and his revenge is truly terrible" But the final revenge is not Robert's... "This subversive horror-fantasy from Tom Baker (ex-monk, ex-sailor, and the ultimate D. r . Who) is outrageous and funny." Interior - tiny chip/tear at bottom edge of pages 15 thru. 26, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing. VG+. more information

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HarperPrism, (New York, 1998), Ist HP printing.. 277 pp, Trade PB. An original novel by David Bischoff based on characters by James O'Barr. "William Blessing is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe. Like Poe, he is a writer of dark fantasy. And like Poe, he has powerful enemies. One of them pretends. to be a friend, even as he plots to murder William and steal his wife. Blessing's only hope is to learn the truth about his 'friend' before -" NF. more information

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Avon, (New York, 1981), Ist printing.. 296 pp, PB. After the hurricane ended, "...we drifted until we spied an island. With shouts of relief, we anchored in a lush lagoon and began exploring. Our miseries had ended. However, we soon discovered a nameless pirate ship, an eerie black p. hantom half-buried in the sand. And when we unlocked the grisly secrets of the black ship, I knew the nightmare had just begun..." Interior - inside of covers/pages edges starting to brown, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownershi. p m a r k s. Exterior - minor edgewear/rubbing, two tiny dints to front cover, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Pocket, New York, (1992), Ist printing.. 270 pp. mass market paperback. Cover art by Mark Watts. A collection of 20 short stories with mini bios of contributors. "Rock to the world of horror where martyred musical superlegends return from the dead at 120 decibels...where radio stations . sponser ghastly giveaways that no living soul could want...where other-earthly pirates bootleg not records, but human souls...where people are strange...and the devil rocks all night..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. . Exterior - minor edgewear/rubbing, soft crease at top of front cover, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Warner, (London, 1993).. 255 pp, PB. A collection of 17 chilling tales by some of the masters of the Vampire story, introduced by Christopher Lee. Interior - small crease to top corner of last page, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - l. ight edgewear/rubbing, small creases at bottom edges of covers, small crease to top corner of rear cover, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Victor Gollancz, London, 1978.. 183 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0575024178 6 b&w illustrations. "The Shilling Shockers came about in the great days of the Gothic novels, at around the turn of the nineteenth century, many of which were enormously long three-d. eckers. In those days, before copyright existed, such titles....were plagiarised and abridged by hacks into what were known as 'Bluebooks', paper-covered pamphlets retailing at between 6d and 1s....when the supply of three-decker Gothic novels ra. n thin, a good trade was done in Bluebooks comprising original short stories in the macabre field. It is on these short stories that Peter Haining has largely drawn for this collection....The book has a general introduction which explains the deve. lo p ment, success and eventual demise of the Bluebooks, and in addition each story is introduced with details of its provenance and other relevant information." Contents: The Vindictive Monk: Or, The Fatal Ring; The Mysterious Novice: Or, Convent. of t he Grey Penitents; Captive of the Banditti: A Terrific Tale Concluded; The Spectre Mother: Or, the Haunted Tower; The Life and Horrid Adventures of the Celebrated Dr Faustus; The Old Tower of Frankenstein; The Bride of the Isles: A Tale Found. ed o n t he Popular Legend of the Vampire; The Lunatic and His Turkey: A Tale of Witchcraft; The Severed Arm, Or, The Wehr-wolf of Limousin; Five Hundred Years Hence!; Bibliography. Faint cigarette odor, very light browning to edges of textblock, t. iny b ump at tbottom of spine, light wrinkling at top of spine, tiny bump to bottom corner of both boards. Dust jacket has minor edge wear and very light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing, light browning at top of flap-folds. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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HarperPrism, (New York, 1997), Ist printing.. 248 pp, PB. "The signs are everywhere. A stripper's mutilated corpse. Prophecies scrawled on a highway overpass. The living dead interred in homemade coffins beside a freezing river. Darkness visible is stalking Seattle's sexual underground, an. d the police can't stop it..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear, spine flat and uncreased. VG+. more information

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Victor Gollancz, London, (1998), Ist edition.. 384 pp, 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "...Then, on the day of his annual trip to his own private island to give six lucky fans the night and fright of their lives, (Jim Green, horror writer's) creative juices begin flowing again and words start pouring o. n to his computer screen. Trouble is, he's not always typing them and he can't seem to stop them, not even by turning off the computer. And, as the horror fest on Straker's Island approaches, Jim begins to realize that it's not just his own . i m a g i n ation which has been creating his bestselling books...and now the source of all those vivid ideas and gory scenes is out for payback." Dust jacket has very minor edgewear/rubbing. This is a new, unread book. NF/VG+. more information

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J.M. Dent, London, (1946), Ist edition.. 200 pp, small 8vo (approx. 7 1/2" H), hard cover (black boards with white lettering on spine), in dust jacket. Contains twenty stories selected from 'Midnight House', 'The Beast With Five Fingers', and 'Moods and Tenses'. Richardson 'introduces th. em with an essay on ghost stories in general and on Dr. Harvey and his stories in particular. Contents: Midnight House; The Dabblers; Unwinding; Mrs. Ormerod; Double Demon; The Tool; The Heart of the Fire; The Clock; Peter Levisham; Miss Cornel. i u s ; The Man Who Hated Aspidistras; Sambo; The Star; Across the Moors; The Follower; August Heat; Sarah Bennet's Possession; The Ankardyne Pew; Miss Avenal; The Beast With Five Fingers. Bequest bookplate on front free endpaper, small bookstore l. ab el o n rear pastedown, minor wrinkle at bottom of spine, minor rubbing to boards. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has light to moderate edge wear, small chips at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light browning, a few small closed tears with cr. eas es, so me light waviness, light rubbing/soiling and 2" scratch on rear panel. VG/G-. more information

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Ravenstone, (Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1998).. 202 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "What scares you? This question evokes as many varied responses as the people who answer. Some might say snakes, spiders, mice or bats, but deep within your heart, what really scares you? New Gothic explores the darker s. ide of the human condition. Characters who are complacent in their world are thrown into chaos by forces they can barely comprehend. Loss of control, madness, the unknown, and death are elements of New Gothic that will keep you on the edge o. f y o u r seat..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. This is a new, unread book. NF. more information

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Dell, (New York, 1965), Ist Dell printing.. 206 pp, PB. A collection of 14 short stories introduced by Alfred Hitchcock. Interior - pages browning, previous owner's inscription at top of first page - otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. V. G. more information

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Wilderness Adventure Books, (Manchester, MI, 1999), 2nd printing.. 162 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H), soft cover. B&w illus. "Phantom shadows on Lake Ontario...drowning sailors at Point Iroquois...mysterious disappearances on Hope Island...madness and horror at South Haven...The isolated lighthouses of the Great Lakes prov. ide the perfect setting for twenty-one spine-tingling tales. In these lonely outposts, a solitary keeper struggles with the elements, unknown forces, and internal demons..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior. - minor rubbing. NF. more information

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Grafton, (London, 1991), reprint.. 188 pp, PB. " - a voyage of mystery and imagination as bizarre as (some might say even more strange than) Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World'. William Hope Hodgson's classic novel of high-seas horror is as sinister and darkly shadowed as the most fever. ed and haunting creations of Edgar Allan Poe..." Interior - pages just starting to brown, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, soft crease to top corner of rear cover, small scuff to rear cov. e r , s p ine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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New English Library, (London, 1996), Ist NEL printing.. 188 pp, PB. Cover art by Jim Burns. "...a true classic of dark fantasy...blends haunting visions of far-future cataclysm, unearthly transdimentional odysseys, and the terrifying story of one man's battle against monsters from the Pit to create a c. ompellingly bizarre pre-psychedelic trip to an astounding alien cosmos. In its power to grip, shock and amaze readers it is unrivalled in imaginative fiction." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edg. e w e a r , spine flat and uncreased. VG+. more information

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Abacus, (London, 1999), Ist Abacus printing.. 428 pages, Paperback. "Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret. ? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millenia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past?" A new interpretation of the incredible discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb and the curse surrounding it - who were the ancien. t E gyptian Pharaohs - were they really gods...what is the basis of the Osiris legend? Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright. NF. more information

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Mosaic, (Oakville, Ontario, 2001).. 263 pp, 8vo, soft cover. A collection of 16 dark fantasy/horror stories by some of Canada's best writers in the genre. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor rubbing, flat uncreased spine. NF. more information

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Victor Gollancz, London, (1997), Ist Gollancz pb printing.. 339 pp, trade paperback. ISBN 0575065729 B&w illus by Dave Carson, Martin McKenna and Jim Pitts. "Using the original novella (by H.P. Lovecraft) as inspiration, these bestselling writers depict the dreadful decline of the decaying Massachusetts s. eaport since the late 1920s, through the war years, the rock 'n' roll era, the recent political upheavals in Eastern Europe, into the modern scientific age and beyond." . Minor edgewear, spine flat and uncreased, some waviness and light intermitt. e n t embossed marks to bottom edge of pages in first half of book - from manufacturing process. Small crease at top of last page. Very Good. more information

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Guild America, Garden City, New York, (1990), book club edition.. 582 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. A collection of 47 "blood-red, bone-white, and cold-blue stories...The all-star authors include Isaac Asimov, L. Frank Baum, Willa Cather, Helen Eustis, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry K. uttner, Fritz Leiber, Washington Irving, Richard Matheson, Ogden Nash, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. These classic and contemporary tales are drawn from five broad regions of the United States: New England, the East, the South,. t h e West, and the Midwest. There's also 'The Midnight Tourist's Guide to Haunted America', a specially compiled directory to haunted sites in each of the fifty states." Small store label on front free endpaper, minor wrinkling at top of spine. . Du st jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, tiny dint on fore-edge of textblock. VG/VG. more information

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Cleis Press, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996), first edition.. 167 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H), soft cover. ISBN 1573440574 "Like the femme fatale, the female werewolf is dangerous and alluring, often using her sexuality to destroy men. But while the vampire employs seduction to capture her prey, the werewolf is mos. t often associated with raw lust and animal instinct. Her desires literally turn her into an animal...From the editor of 'Daughters of Darkness' and 'Dark Angels', (this book) features tales by: Ursula K. Le Guin, Renee M. Charles, Suzy McKee Ch. a r n as, Melanie Tem, Charlee Jacob, Thomas S. Roche, and more!" Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, one small corner crease on front cover, tiny corner crease on rear cover. VG. more information

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Jove, New York, (Oct. 1990, 1st printing). 262 pages, PB.. "The killer recorded the screams of his victims for his own demented pleasure - and created a music of terror. A music that could wake the dead. A music that could kill..." Covers have light edgewear and small soft creases at corners. Two crease. s down spine. VG-.. more information

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Leisure, New York, (1988).. 366 pp, paperback. "To some, the crumbling old house was a repository of evil, but to Kaye Harroway and her two children, it was a safe haven - until the dreams began. Then every groan and creak of rotting timbers took on a sinister significance, . and every shadow seemed to harbor a lurking evil. Even more terrifying was the forbidding attic, a cold void that sent chilling tendrils of fear throughout Kaye's body. For it was in the attic that she had located the source of her revoltig and de. mented nightmares - an antique mahogany dresser containing something so unspeakable that it threatened not only her life, but the lives of her children and their immortal souls." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Ext. e r i o r - light edgewear, flat uncreased spine. VG. more information

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Del Rey, New York, (1988), 13th printing.. 208 pp, PB. A collection of 20 macabre stories by H.P. Lovecraft with a partial chronlogy of his early works. Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear/rubbing, s. light bump to top of rear hinge, spine flat with two very faint creases. VG. more information

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Bartholomew House, New York, (1945), Bart House.. 186 pp, mass market paperback. Interior - a few pages with tiny corner crease, two stamps on first page, one stamp on last page, a few light foxing marks on inside of covers and on adjacent pages. Exterior - light to moderate edge wear, tiny foxin. g mark on fore-edge of a few pages, small crease at corners, tiny piece missing from lower corner of front cover, moderate soiling/rubbing to rear cover and on spine, tiny dint on rear cover. Good sound copy.. more information

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Headline, (London, 1991), Ist printing.. 309 pp, - mass market paperback. Contents: Introduction; How Kank Thad Returned to Bhur-Esh; The Sorcerer's Book; The House of Cthulhu; Tharquest and the Lamia Orbiquita; To Kill a Wizard!; Cryptically Yours; Mylakhrion the Immortal; Lords of the . Morass; The Wine of the Wizard; The Sorcerer's Dream. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, very tiny bump at bottom of front hinge, a few tiny dints on rear cover, spine flat and uncreased. . VG+. more information

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HarperCollins, (New York, 1999), 3rd printing.. 568 pp, large 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "...join (Clive Barker) on a dazzling, wondrous journey through the worlds of his imagination and to experience visions, dreams, love, terror, heaven and hell, and revenge..." Dust jacket has very minor edgewe. ar. NF/NF. more information

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Quarry, (Kingston, Ontario, 2000).. 185 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "...this special anthology is a terrific mix of dark terror and outright horror, from atmospheric creeping fear to over-the-top violence and gore." A collection of 17 stories. Interior - clean and tight with no previous o. wnership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, spine flat and uncreased. This is a new, unread book. VG+. more information

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Pan, London, 1993, first paperback printing.. 581 pp, mass market paperback. ISBN 0330328468 "1923. Madeline Neville watches as her father fills Parkland Hall for her 18th birthday party. Among them is his handsome new research assistant Karl - the man she has already decided will be her hu. sband. Her sister Charlotte has generously agreed to stand aside. Until she sees Karl....For Charlotte, it is the beginning of a deadly obsession. As their feverish passion grows, Karl faces the dilemma he fears the most. For Karl von Wultend. o r f is a vampire. And only by deserting Charlotte can his passion for her blood be conquered...." Interior - bookstore stamp on first page, tear on page 521 archivally taped, tiny edge tear (archivally taped) and small piece missing at top corn. er o f pages 519/520 - doesn't effect the text, pages browning very lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, small crease at corners, faint creases on spine, very light browning to edges of. te xtb lo ck, minor scuffs on fore-edge of textblock. Very Good-. more information

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Signet/NAL, (Scarborough, Ontario, 1977), Ist Signet printing.. 138 pp, PB. Published to be released along with film starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York (does not include any photos/stills, etc.) "Take a terrifying journey into the unknown - to a secret scientific laboratory populated by the most unspeaka. bly grotesque forms of life ever to shadow the Earth with horror..." Interior - page edges browning, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light/moderate edgewear, crease to bottom corner of rear cover, spine. f l a t and uncreased. VG-. more information

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Ace D-508, New York, (1961), Ist ed.. 192 pp, PB. "Notice: to all the tens of thousands of readers who though The Macabre Reader was a chiller-diller of a book - More Macabre is more eerie, more horrific, more goulish, more spooky." Crease across bottom corner of front cover, minor e. dgewear to spine and covers, small brown stains to edge of first three pages. VG. more information

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HarperCollins, New York, 1991, 5th printing,. 228 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 006026800X A collection of 13 original vampire stories for readers aged 10 and up. Contents: Nobody Has to Know; There's No Such Thing; Curse of the Undead; Blood Kin; Miss Emily's Roses; . The Blood-Ghoul of Scarsdale; The Magic-Stealer; Ahvel; A Cold Stake; Blood Libel; Aunt Horrible's Last Visit; Mama Gone; Richie. Tiny dint at top/bottom edges of front board, remainder mark on bottom of textblock, very light wrinkling at top of sp. ine. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling, light rubbing. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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