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London: Chancellor Press, 1994. 501pp - 1st ed. Includes stories by SF old masters such as Asimov, Simak, Ellison and Wyndham and even older masters including Poe and Doyle. An amazing collection, it doesn't get much more eclectic than this. Page edges starting to yellow, otherwise Fine.. First Edition. Laminated. Fine/No Jacket. ... more information

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London: Humphrey Milford - Oxford University Press, 1916. 486pp - Number CXCIII in "The World's Classics" series. Edited by Hugh Walker, it includes short stories by such 19th Century greats as: Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Disraeli, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Dr. John Brown, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, George Meredith, William Hale White ("Mark Rutherford"), William Morris, Richard Garnett, Francis Bret Har... more information

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London: Octopus Books Inc, 1982. 672pp - An anthology of ghoulishly thrilling short stories by many of the masters including: Arthur Conan Doyle, Joan Aiken, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Roald Dahl, Jerome K. Jerome, Stephen King, Henry Kuttner, Key Leith, Lord Lytton, H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Ogden Nash, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Bram Stoker, John Wyndham and, of all people Winston Churchill. Covers (black buckram with gilt titles to spine) has minor edgewear and rubbing. Text... more information

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London: Octopus Books Inc, 1983. 670pp - An anthology of ghoulishly thrilling short stories by many of the masters including: Arthur Conan Doyle, Joan Aiken, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Roald Dahl, Jerome K. Jerome, Stephen King, Henry Kuttner, Key Leith, Lord Lytton, H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Ogden Nash, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Bram Stoker, John Wyndham and, of all people Winston Churchill. Covers (red leather spine with silver titles over pictorial laminated boards) has min... more information

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London: Book Club Associates, 1987. 711pp inc bibliography. Anthology of horror stories by the likes of Bloch, RL Stevenson, Morris L. West, Slesar, Doyle, Poe, de Camp, and King. Book has some price markings on FEP and soiling to edges. DJ is edgeworn. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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Glasgow: Blackie & Sons Ltd, 1974. 1st Ed. 306pp Anthology of 21 Horror stories by the masters of the genre: Poe, Stoker, Doyle, Wells, Matheson, Lovecraft and others. Book and DJ immaculate.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. ... more information

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London: Octopus Books Inc, 1988. 269pp inc several b&w and colour illustrations - An anthology of great mystery tales by the likes of: Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bret Harte, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Honore de Balzac, Ambrose Bierce, Roald Dahl, William Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant. Book is immaculate.. Laminated. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Thompson, Sam (line drawings) and Palin, Nicki (colour illustraton) and Hood, Philip (cover art). ... more information

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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. 379pp plus 4pp publisher's catalogue - Undated, but apparently ca 1950s. Contains a baker's dozen of Poe's best: "The Gold Bug", "MS found in a Bottle", "A Descent into the Maelstrom", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "William Wilson", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "A Tale of the Ragged ... more information

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London: Book Club Associates, 1995. 578pp inc - A collection of more than 30 short stories which were the inspiration for those late-naight, nightmare-inducing TV programmes we all knew and loved, Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Lights Out, Appointment with Fear, Night Gallery and others. Stories by Carr, Wells, Serling, Derleth, Dahl, Poe, Simak, Wyndham, Doyle, Lovecraft, Amis, King, Matheson and others. Book and DJ are immaculate. <A large and heavy book which may require additional postage>... more information

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London: Chancellor Press, 1994. 383pp inc pictures and film credits - 18 Short stories that inspired some of the most classic of horror movies. Includes stories by Poe, Hawthorne, Maugham, Stoker, Stevenson, and Lovecraft. Introduction by Vincent Price. Afterword by Christopher Lee. Book is immaculate.. Reprint. Laminated. Fine/No Jacket. ... more information

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London: Odhams Press Ltd. Undated, but apparently ca 1920. Cover is brown faux-leather with blind-stamped decoration to front and spine. Titling in gilt on spine. Slight bumps to corners, slight soiling to pages, but otherwise Fine. First Thus. Faux-leather. Fine/No Jacket. 5 x 7 1/2". ... more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1919. xi, 242 inc index - Originally written as a series of weekly articles, Bennett wrote these under the pseudonym, "Jacob Tonson" and published in <B><I>The New Age</B></I>. Essay subjects include: Wordsworth, Joseph Conrad, Kenneth Grahame, E A Poe, H G Wells, John Galsworth, Henry James, and John Masefield, Covers (green cloth with blind-stamped titles to front and spine) are soiled with light edgewear and sunning to spine. Textblock is cle... more information

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London: Bloomsbury Books, 1991. 607pp - A collection of 43 horror stories by some of the best authors in the genre including: James Hogg, Prosper Merimee, Edgar Allan Poe, Honore De Balzac, Henry James, Guy De Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, and H. G. Wells. Also: William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, A. M. Burrage, E. F. Benson, Aaugustus Muir, John Metcalf, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn... more information

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Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1965. 306pp - A collection of Poe's greatest tales. Translated by Charles Baudelaire, with chronology and introduction by Roger Asselineau. Covers are lightly soiled with sunning to edges and spine. Text block generally clean and tight except for normal ex-lib stamps and markings and card pocket.. Reprint. Laminated. Very Good, tres Bon/No Jacket, sans Jaquette. 4 x 7". Ex-Library. ... more information

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London: George Newnes Ltd. 888pp inc 210 b&w illustrations - Undated but bookplate attached to FPDP is dated "June 1934". This is the extremely scarce (no other copies currently online) Second Book of the five-book series. Included are synopses of 46 of "The World's Best Books", all the classic literature we wish we had "the opportunity or the leisure to read". The books are summarised by including major passages from the books interspersed between narrative which conne... more information

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London: Hutchinson & Co. 459pp - Undated, but apparently mid to late 1940s. Intended as a collection of reading material to bring some entertainment to the depressed victims of WWII England. Edited by J. B. Firth, it contains an extraordinary variety of materials by Joseph Addition, Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, Earl Baldwin, Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Laurance Binyon, and William Blake. <P>Also Edmund Blunden, George Borrow, Boswell, Emily Bronte, Rupert Brooke, Robert Browning, Bunyan, Edmu... more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. 182pp inc index of first lines and frontispice of Poe's cottage. This volume of Poe's poetry includes a 48-page biographical and bibliographical introduction by Hutton and a 2-page Preface, dated 1845, by Poe. <P>The cover is decorative paper with a red, yellow and blue on white geometrical design to front and rear. The frontispiece is protected by the original tissue guard. The white spine with black titles is sunned and rubbed with a 2" closed tear a... more information

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London: Odhams Press Ltd, 1934. 1079pp inc index to titles and authors, b&w frontis and 16 other b&w full-page illustrations - A collection of mystery, crime and supernatural. Four-page introduction by Thomson. <P>Authors include: Max Beerbohm, J. J. Bell, Ambrose Bierce, W. Wilkie Collins, Guy deMaupassant, Charles Dickens, Mrs Gaskell, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Louis Stevenson... more information

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