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New York, New York, USA: Dover Publications, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean purple cover with line illustration by Phiz (1815-92), design by Jeff A. Menges. Slight wear to corners and spine heel, no creasing; soundly bound, square. Pages lightly toned, clean and free from any markings. This unique collection gathers together 21 of these Victorian-era spine-tinglers-outstanding but neglected stories from that time period--the black comedy of Ambrose Bierce in the title story; "The Ship that Saw a Ghost" , a seafaring mystery by Frank Norris; "The Tomb", Guy de Maupassant's grotesque account of one man's incurable longing for his deceased lover; --and 18 more delightful scary stories. Unabridged Dover (2001) republication of "Victorian Nightmares", originally published by Taplinger Publishing Co, New York, 1977. Editor's Foreword. 224 pages. 8.25 x 5.2 inches.

New York, New York, USA: Barnes & Noble, 2009. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Introduction by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Reprinted here are many of Lovercraft's most famous works of classic horror tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu", 1928; "The Dunwich Horror", 1929,; and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", 1936. These stories introduce readers to Lovecraft's pantheon of "gods", his fictitious New England geogrsphy and the Necronomicon, Lovecaft;s fictional book of occult secrets. 456 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2009, Barnes & Noble, New York, New York, USA

USA: Ballantine Books, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. A supernatural thriller, starting as a serial killer novel, moving into nightmare and terror, told at a 'breathless pace'. 196 pages. 6.25 x9.5 inches.

New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Ex-Library Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked hinged cover, slight wear around edges, tight and solid binding, library check-out sheet on endpaper, stamp to upper edge, no other markings. Clean, unmarked, solid book exploring the Dracula legend--its origin, incarnations, and impact on Western culture. 321 pages with Notes, Bibliography, Filmography, Theater Productions, Calendar of Events, and Index. 9 x 6". 1997, Broadway Books, New York

USA: Scholastics Classics, 1999. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Introduction by Walter Dean Myers. Dracula was first published in 1897. This Paperback is in Very Good Condition. Cover is clean and bright--black with red print, red gate through which a black dracula emerges. Very slight edgewear, rubbing of spine edge. Interior is clean, unmarked, untorn--Fine. Dracula has been recreated hundreds of times for stage and screen in the last century. It is essentially a Victorian saga, a tale of a bloodthirsty vampire whose nightime activities reflects the dark underside of a supremely moralistic age. It is a quintessential story of suspense and horror, with centuries-old Count Dracula preying upon the innocent, the helpless, the beautiful. 4.1 x 6.6 inches. 1999, Scholastics Classics, USA

New York and Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Trade Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. The first in a new series of novels by Anne Rice, the creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the worlds they inhabit. This new series is linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. Bound in black half cloth w/bold gilt titles, black boards. Very clean, no soiling or marks. Trace wear to lower edges. Tight and solid binding. Jacket is clean and bright, untorn and unmarked. Light rumpling of upper and lower edges. 353 pages. 8.25 x 4.75 inches. 1999, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA

U.S.A: Hyperion Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Mylar jacket cover. In his debut novel, psychiatrist Roderick Anscombe takes readers into the fevered mind of Count Dracula the man-aristocrat, doctor, and helpless killer of young women. There are no vampires--only tormented human beings in this erotic reinvention of the classic Dracula myth 409 pages. Hyperion Books, New York, 1994.

New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Bright, clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. Jacket with archival protective cover. Anne Rice brings to this story the realmsof the occult, the mystical, and the magical, and into the presence of a new dark, powerful hero: the witty Azriel, the Servant of the Bones. 387 PAGES. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1997, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA

USA: Picador USA, 2000. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Picador Printing, Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. 376 pages. Clean, unmarked, gently used book, slight cover edgewear. In late 1999, on the Baltic Coast a concrete prison barge rips loose of its mooring during a hurricane. Housing thousands of Europe's most dangerous criminals, only twelve depraved souls in cellblock 306 survive. One of the twleve is their savior. Signs and Wonders explores millenial paranoia and its link with our fundamental story of trust and betrayal,

New York and Canada: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Hardcover Trade Edition Book and Dust Jacket As New. Bright, clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. Jacket with archival protective cover. An Anne Rice story crowded with history, drama, invention and romantic intensity. Her new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1997, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York and Canada