Search Results: Horror from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Blue Rider Press/Penguin, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The 22nd novel by Dobyns, who has won several awards for his poetry and whose "Saratoga" mystery series featuring private detective, Charlie Bradshaw, has received high praise from the critics. "The Burn Palace" has many features of another Dobyns' freestanding mystery, "The Church of the Dead Girls." Both are set in small towns; both involve mysterious disappearances and contain elements of the satanic and supernatural. Detective Woody Potter must contend with a pack of coyotes, a baby missing from the local hospital, replaced by a snake, and strange goings-on at a crematorium. First edition, first printing (with complete numberline). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 464 pages. Bound in red paper-covered boards with red backstrip. Black lettering on spine and "SD" in black on front cover. Graphically designed dustjacket shows large snake in red against bright yellow background with… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Crowned Heads," a collection of four novellas about fictional Hollywood movies stars, was Tryon's fourth book, written, according to many reviewers to generate a mega-million-dollar, four-movie deal that was announced the same year the book was published. This copy is from the Book Club edition. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 340 pages bound in black paper-covered boards with author's name in gold on front cover and with gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel features gold mythological icons of humor and grief topped with crowns; back panel is full-panel b&w photo of Tryon. Text edges lightly soiled, o/w text and boards are complete, clean and unmarked, without significant flaws or damage. Dj has an inch-long tear on front panel next to lower end of spine, other minor tears and edgewear, but still whole with only very minor damage to graphic elements. The book, though it received decidely mixed reviews, was a… Read More

New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. King's horror-thriller novel and bibliomystery of a bestselling author whose pseudonym is a violent murderer, impossibly alive, leaving a trail of blood and terror around Castle Rock, Maine, as he comes to confront his creator. A remainder mark on bottom edge of text. A collectable copy

New York: Viking Penguin, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. King's story of an elderly Maine woman's confession to the murder of her husband thirty years ago; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Locus Award-winner Powers follows his award-winning, ghost-filled "Expiration Date" with another novel featuring malevolent spirits. In "Earthquake Weather" a young woman possessed by a ghost has killed the Fisher King of the West, unleashing terrible earthquakes, fires, floods and riots throughout California. Boards and text are clean, tight, square, in a dustjacket showing only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Winner of the 1996 Locus Award for Horror/Dark Fantasy. In "Expiration Date," Powers has populated Los Angeles with ghosts and with unpleasant characters who extend their lives and enhance their power by catching and absorbing the ghosts of the recently dead. Boards and text are clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Bantam Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. a novel from a master storyteller featuring Californian Christopher Snow, who spends his life in darkness because his rare genetic disability makes ordinary daylight almost as dangerous as other human beings; dustjacket shows a trace of edgewear, else Fine. A collectable copy.

New York: Mysterious Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edgar Award-winning Lansdale a master craftsman of horror, suspense, crime and western genres, has brought them all together in this novel set in East Texas in 1958 in a town passed over by the post war boom. 13-year-old Stanley Mitchell loses his innocence with his discovery of an old bundle of passionate and troubled love letters that lead him to a long-ago house fire and the deaths of two young women. Small remainder mark on top edge of text near the spine, spine ends and corners of back cover lightly bumped, with a few pages' upper corners slightly soiled, o/w text and boards clean, tight and square. Dustjacket shows light bumping in same areas as text, o/w no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In this noir novel, a darkly humorous crime caper, the award-winning Lansdale tells the story of East Texas Bill Roberts -- loner, loser, sometime armed robber, whose dead mom's moldering in the back room. Bill can't report her dead or he'll lose her Social Security check but he needs more income. He holds up a fireworks stand but bungles the job and just makes it to the swamp ahead of the police. When he stumbles out of the mud a day later, his mosquito-bitten face makes him a top candidate for the cut-rate, country freak show he stumbles into. Hiding among the freaks, trying to stay away from the ringleader's luscious young wife, Bill is heading straight for a confrontation with the show's main attraction, the mysterious frozen man, which promises to make all Bill's other troubles seem small indeed. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The… Read More

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. McGrath's fiction is often compared to works by Poe, Wilde, Kafka, and King and other writers of Gothic horror. Joyce Carol Oates noted his stories are "the nightmares of shattered personalties . bold, original and disquieting tales. told by narrators who are themselves bizarre." "Ghost Town" is a collection of three such stories set in New York City in three different centuries, beginning with a Revolutionary War hanging, then a 19th century merchant who drives his son insane and finally a Manhattan psychiatrist trying to treat a patient with PTSD from the World Trade Center attacks, not realizing she herself was also traumatized by 9/11. First edition, first U.S. printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches, 243 pages in boards decorated with wrap-around b & w photo showing NYC skyline with Statue of Liberty in NY harbor in foreground. Title and… Read More

New York: F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1875. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This was Warfield's first novel, a Gothic fiction featuring a young woman from England coming to live with her grandmother in the U.S. She discovers her grandfather, long believed to be dead, living secretly on the second floor where he is engaged in an insane attempt to create a youth-restoring medicine. The novel is the story of their relationship amid a dark and violent family history. It was a bestseller when published anonymously in 1860 by "A Southern Lady" by Derby & Jackson. This 1875 F.M. Lupton edition is a First Edition Thus. About 5 x 7 3/8 inches, 413 pages in red cloth-covered boards with a black title box and floral decoration on the front cover, and gold title box and black lettering and decorative floral design on spine. Edges and spine ends show wear, mild bumping, no tears or chipping. Text edges somewhat soiled, pages slightly age-toned. Text is complete, clean… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 2014. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Arguably America's greatest author of suspense and the supernatural, Koontz has written in "Innocence," one more masterful story of mystery and destiny. A man and a woman, both living in nearly total isolation from the rest of the world, the result of tragedies in their lives, find each other in the bowels of a great city library at a time when humanity is rapidly approaching a day of reckoning. First edition, first printing. 338 pages (acid free) in blue paper-covered boards with silver lettering on the spine and author's signature blind-stamped on the front cover. Boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked, tight and square. Not remaindered or ex libris. The dustjacket shows only a touch of shelf wear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. King returns to Derry, Maine, the setting for "It," where Ralph Roberts, whose wife has just died, can't sleep and where, just beneath the surface of things, awesome forces are at work. A Collectable Copy.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Hecht, best remembered today for his prize-winning scripts for movies and plays, usually about crime or comedy, ventured briefly early in his career into horror and fantasy with two short novels, "Fantazius Mallare" and its sequel, "The Kingdom of Evil," which as one reviewer has noted, "Here Mallare shuns reality altogether to retreat into a bizarre psychological netherworld." Mallare is kidnapped, enslaved and forced to work with other slaves to create a god, an inhuman entity that grows to enormous size before it is killed and the Kingdom is overun by homicidal mannequins. The Kingdom's inhabitants come to realize their world is a surreal figment of Mallare's imagination, become upset and bring the Kingdom to a suitable end. While "The Kingdom of Evil" did not achieve Federal Government confiscation as "obscene material," followed by a… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tryon's third novel, "Lady," like his bestselling, "The Other," combines elements of mystery and gothic horror in a story about the relationship between an eight-year-old boy and the charming widow with-a-dark-secret who is the leading citizen of a small, 1930s New England town. Book club edition. About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 278 pages in black paper-covered boards and gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel features drawing of woman wearing a broad-brimmed hat that hides her eyes with author's name in black above and title below. Back panel has full-panel, b&w photo of Tryon with cigarette in left hand. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked, without noticeable flaws or damage beyond lightly soiled text edges and slight spine lean. Dj shows minor wear along edges and at spine ends but no significant tears, creases or chipping. A very decent reading copy of this work from an individual who… Read More

New York: Warner Books, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of five novellas exploring the intersection of love and death by this Hugo Award-winning author; red and grey boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal shelfwear. Collectable.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/Fine. The last Castle Rock story features Leland Gaunt and his shop, Needful Things, where people can purchase their secret dreams and desires at a very high price. Collectable.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Pyramid A3799; a collection of short stories by one of the grand masters of mystery, suspense and horror, including his 1974 Edgar Award-winning short story, "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs." Paperback Original, First Printing of the True First Edition. Lightly age-tanned text is clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show rubbing along bottom edges, particularly on the back cover, o/w only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable. Scarce.

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Rice's nineteenth book and the first in a new series featuring David Talbot, a vampire who becomes the historian for the Undead; a Fine, collectable copy.

New York: HarperCollins, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The bestselling Crichton's 23rd novel is a science fiction story featuring new developments in nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms and agent-based computing. An error at a restricted access laboratory in the Nevada desert allows a cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- to escape. The swarm is self-sustaining and able to reproduce. It is intelligent and learns from experience. Programed as a predator, it begins attacking its prey. The prey is human. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete number line). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 367 pages including brief bibliography, bound in grey paper-covered boards with darker grey back strip and silver lettering, and with author's initials stamped in silver on front cover. Dustjacket's wraparound design shows a "swarm" of black "nanoparticles" against white background with title and author lettering in red on front panel and spine.… Read More