Dark Things

Sauk City WI: Arkham House. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear to book, small check-marks next to several titles in table of contents, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket has just a touch of wear at several corners, light browning along edges of front panel]. The "fourth in a series of anthologies of entirely new, hitherto unpublished stories." Contents: "The Funny Farm" (Robert Bloch); "The Eyes of Mme. Dupree" (P.H. Booth); "'The Peril That Lurks Among Ruins'" (Joseph Payne Brennan); "Napier Court" (Ramsey Campbell); "The Dweller in the Tomb" (Lin Carter); "Shaggai" (Carter); "The House by the Tarn" (Basil Copper); "The Knocker at the Portico" (Copper); "Lord of the Depth" (David Drake); "Omega" (Alice R. Hill); "The House in the Oaks" (Robert E. Howard); "The Singleton Barrier" (Carl Jacobi); "The Case of the Double Husband" (Margery Lawrence); "Innsmouth Clay" (H.P. Lovecraft); "Rising with Surtsey" (Brian Lumley); "The Deep-sea Conch" (Lumley); "Company in the Orchard" (Frances May); "'Beyondaril'" (John Metcalfe); "The Manterfield Inheritance" (Charles Partington); "The Storm King" (Emil Petaja); "The Elevator" (James Wade); "Appointment with Fire" (H. Russell Wakefield); "The Rings of the Papaloi" (Donald J. Walsh, Jr.); "Requiem for Earth" (Donald Wandrei). Includes brief biographical blurbs on all authors. .