London: Interzone, 1982 Early issue of seminal English science fiction, horror and fantasy magazine featuring J.G. Ballard, Thomas M. Disch, Rachel Pollack and others.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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London: Interzone, 1982 Early issue of seminal English science fiction, horror and fantasy magazine featuring Nicholas Allan, Angela Carter, Josephine Saxton and others.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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Paris: Elvifrance, 1972 Horror comic. French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1980 Six weird tales and ghost stories including his classic The Fetch featuring what may well be the most horrific witch-figure in all ghostly literature.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: George Newnes, 1896 Split into 3 vols of "The Penny Library of Famous Books" No. 51, 52 & 53. Some wear and fraying to edges. 53 also includes The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens.. First Thus. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Herbert Jenkins Rebound in strong library binding.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Pierre Le Touche. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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London: Centaur Press, 1962 First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Jupiter Books, 1977 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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London: Hutchinson & Co. c.1930s. Hinges cracked, spine frayed and splitting boards marked.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Hutchinson and Co., 1928 Michael Arlen (November 16, 1895 - June 23, 1956), born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England. Although Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers, for instance "The Gentleman from America," which was filmed in 1956 as a television episode for Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Near the end of his life, Arlen mainly occupied himself with political writing. Arlen's vivid but colloquial style "with unusual inversions and inflections with a heightened exotic pitch" came to be known as Arlenesque. Very much a 1920s society figure resembling the characters he portrayed in his novels, and a man who might be referred to as a dandy, Arlen invariably impressed everyone with his immaculate manners. He was always impeccably dressed and groomed and was seen driving around London in a fashionable yellow Rolls Royce and engaging in all kinds of luxurious activities. However, he was well aware of the latent racism, the contempt for foreigners mixed with envy, with which his success was viewed. Sydney Horler (1888-1954), another popular author of the time, is said to have called Arlen "the only Armenian who never tried to sell me a carpet", while Arlen half-jokingly described himself as "every other inch a gentleman". c.1930s.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: William Heinemann, 1934 Michael Arlen (November 16, 1895 - June 23, 1956), born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England. Although Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers, for instance "The Gentleman from America," which was filmed in 1956 as a television episode for Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Near the end of his life, Arlen mainly occupied himself with political writing. Arlen's vivid but colloquial style "with unusual inversions and inflections with a heightened exotic pitch" came to be known as Arlenesque. Very much a 1920s society figure resembling the characters he portrayed in his novels, and a man who might be referred to as a dandy, Arlen invariably impressed everyone with his immaculate manners. He was always impeccably dressed and groomed and was seen driving around London in a fashionable yellow Rolls Royce and engaging in all kinds of luxurious activities. However, he was well aware of the latent racism, the contempt for foreigners mixed with envy, with which his success was viewed. Sydney Horler (1888-1954), another popular author of the time, is said to have called Arlen "the only Armenian who never tried to sell me a carpet", while Arlen half-jokingly described himself as "every other inch a gentleman" c. 1930s. Covers marked.. Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Creation Books, 2003 Antonin Artaud’s simulacrum of The Monk is the only work of sustained fiction by the infamous literary terrorist. Taking Matthew Gregory Lewis's gothic novel of 1794 as the starting point for an astonishing exploration of the far edges of death, sexuality and terror, Artaud conducted an evisceration of the original novel, discarding entire chapters, recreating others and stamping his own distinctive identity on the work in his avowed aim to accentuate the story’s violence and atrocity to the maximal degree. In Artaud's The Monk, sexual obsession is irrepressibly crushed together with murder, cruelty and blasphemy. The result is a searing document of lust and fear which will push the reader's sensorial pleasure beyond the point of no return. Best known for his Theatre of Cruelty manifestoes, Surrealist film projects and corporeal poetry, Artaud created The Monk in France in 1931, to the acclaim of such figures as Jean Cocteau, at a time when Artaud's explicit purpose in his work was to cancel out all existing social and moral systems. This is the first time ever that the book has appeared in English. With an introduction by Stephen Barber (author, Artaud: The Screaming Body and Artaud: Blows & Bombs). A great masterpiece of fantastic literature.. marvels burst out at the reader, burning with a thousand fires.. the spirit of the marvellous inflames this book to the very core. André Breton. This work of Artaud is that of an alchemist, an evil angel. The Monk is an epic of blood, plague and death, sorcery and poison blazes and ravages us. Jean Cocteau.. First English Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: New English Library, 1976 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Elm Tree Books, 1977 First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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London: Dennis Dobson, 1967 d/j has been bound in and laminated. Some minor wear to spine extremities. Rare in any condition.. First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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London: New English Library, 1973 First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968 Collection of thirteen stories which first appreared in a variety of magazines over the period 1939-1967 .. First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1977 Collection of mysteries by the prolific Asimov.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Hollywood: Nosferatu Productions, 1993 Important publication of the gothic underground. Music, films, books etc.. First Edition. Magazine. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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London: New English Library, 1974 Sally Fenton and her boyfriend Andrew move to a rural Derbyshire setting to set up a craftshop. They come across a buried brass engraving from the old church near Stymead, dating to the 1200's. They take rubbings of the brass and then the TALE begins. Read more about: exorcism, Lady Sybil, sheep-worriers, vampirism, the Black Nigget, boggarts, and night-beasts.. First Thus. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Harper and Row, 1898 Rare in this condition... First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Peter Newell. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Harpers, 1899 Some minor markings on front board.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Penfield. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by Peter Newell. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899 First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by F.T. Richards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909 Spine extremities worn.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Reaktion Books, 1994 Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelleys "Frankenstein". By choosing as a guiding theme the idea of the scientist who creates a monster, she both revived for the Romantic period the traditional link between scientific experiment and natural magic, and made her own contribution to the debate on the difference between "creation" and "production" that was flourishing among the natural scientists of her time.;"Frankenstein" thus signals an integration of the broad issues of contemporary science and culture, within the form of a popular fiction. In this way, it stands at the head of a productive tendency which is marked, over the next century, by related works such as Bram Stokers "Dracula" and H.G. Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau". Common to these works is a fascination with the ethics of creation, and the phenomenon of monstrosity, which provokes interesting questions about the place of the monster in Western visual culture - questions which are addressed by the essays in this book. The authors are Michael Grant, Elisabeth Bronfen, Louis James, Robert Olorenshaw, Michael Fried, Crosbie Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova and Jean-Louis Schefer.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Harper Collins, 1991 Horror novel. Includes signed dedication to author James Havoc.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: John Macqueen, 1899 First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: John Spencer & Co., 1963 Vampire novel. Badger Books series: SN 78. An unread copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Pan, 1968 Showing wear. Film tie-in edition. Rare in any condition.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. (more information)

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