VOICES FROM THE VAULTS, Authentic Tales of Vampires and Ghosts (signed)

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1987. Book. Illus. by Tibor Kovalik. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Twenty stories/essays concerning horror literature's most enduring archetypes, the vampire and the ghost. Contributors include Margaret L. Carter ("The Count's Soliloquy"), Peter Allan ("Domdaniel"), F.G. Loring ("The Tomb of Sarah"), E.F. Benson ("The Room in the Tower"), Theophile Gautier ("The Beautiful Vampire"), Vlad Kinkopf ("Nellie's Grave"), Peter Underwood ("The Italian Count"), Rabindranath Tagore ("The Hungry Stones"), Margaret L. Carter ("A Call in the Blood"), Robert Bloch ("The Cloak"), P'u Sung-Ling ("The Painted Skin"), F. Marion Crawford ("For the Blood is the Life"), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ("Schalken the Painter"), Bram Stoker ("The Judge's House"), Perceval Landon ("Thurnley Abbey"), M.R. James ("Count Magnus"), Amelia B. Edwards ("The Phantom Coach"), the most widely published writer in the history of words, some guy named Anonymous ("The Man on the Stairs"), Alexis Tolstoy ("The Family of the Vourdalak"), and Thomas Preskett Prest (Varney the Vampyre"). Editor Varma contributes an introduction. Inscription reads, "For/A***** E*****/for/shudder on/spectral nights./from/D.P. Varma." Black cloth w/red foil spine lettering, 247 pages, dust jacket illustration by Edith Simon. Mild bumping to spine ends, light general wear, in dust jacket w/some rubbing, crinkling near top edge of front panel, thin scratches, indentation to right edge of rear panel (above gutter) . Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve..