Horror Novels

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1943 First printing of the first edition. One of 1,217 copies printed, Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine titles, octavo, 458 pages. The fourth book issued by Arkham House. The companion novel to The Outsider and Others.

Accompanied by three letters from August Derleth to Clark Ashton Smith, discussing dust jacket art. Also includes a prepublication announcement card and a subsequent information card, as well as a letter from Derleth verifying an order for copies of Beyond the Wall of Sleep.

Light rubbing at head and tail of spine and at corners of boards, text block is faintly age toned, but clean, unmarked, and tight in binding. Scarce dust jacket is slightly rubbed at spine head and tail and at corner tips. Overall near fine to fine condition.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. New/No dust jacket as issued. SIGNED on title page + Photo. Signed in person by the late Anne Rice directly on the title page, NOT signed to anyone. Photos of Anne Rice at her book signing event will be included with the signed book. Barnes and Noble First Edition Thus, later printing. Leatherbound, gold gilt block, Hard cover with silk marker. No dust jacket as issued. Book is NEW and UNREAD in pristine condition, opened only for signing. This is a beautiful RARE autographed book. Makes a great gift.

Rare, antique book about the supernatural - "BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE - A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES" by Ralph Adams Cram. 1895 1st Edition; Stone & Kimball; Chicago. There are 6 stories in all - please see the photos for the complete list of contents. With a Postscript and 14-page publisher's catalog at the back of the book. Illustrated end papers. Gilt top edge. "Hailed as one of the most extraordinary volumes of terror tales published. It includes [the] best-known story of a frightening journey through 'The Dead Valley,' which H.P. Lovecraft (in Supernatural Horror in Literature) singled out for praise."Condition:Clean covers; light soiling to the spine; sharp corners. Tight binding. No loose pages. Crack at front hinge between the end papers. The text pages are in great condition - name/date (1897) written in pen and "Received at Savannah from Mrs. E.W. Jones" written in pencil on the title page (see photo)...otherwise the pages are clean. Overall in very good condition.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1832. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition (published 1832-38), octavo, three volumes; xii, 388; 409; 509pp. In contemporary half calf (lightly worn), spines divided into five compartments with gilt rolls and double fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively. Early ownership labels to front endpapers, neat early ink ownership names to head of each title page, early pencil ownership inscription to opening blank of volume three, half-titles present in all three volumes. Clean attractive copy in first edition of Warren's often macabre tales that have received considerable scholarly attention as a source for Edgar Allan Poe's works of mystery and the supernatural.

The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers 1st Edition) BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with elaborate blind stamped Harper and Brothers cartouche on front and back boards. Ads state B. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. Used. Good- Condition. Our copy lacks it's spine. Some water-spotting noted. Please see our photos. States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Both pairs of chocolate brown endpapers are in good shape. Please see our photos. First American edition, second state, with first page of rear ads headed "By Miss Mulock," listing eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss [Gasson p. 160.] A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, a smash success upon publication. Has become rare, like the author's gift for spellbinding tales. This book is acknowledged as creating and popularizing the detective/mystery genre in Victorian Great Britain. Will ship from Oregon.

1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Fine condition and has a near fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright.

The Mysterious Affair At Styles. By Agatha Christie.1920 Harper & Brothers Copyright. Undated ca,1940 Grosset & Dunlap Washington Square Press Reprint Edition. Acceptable/ GOOD ORIGINAL CANDLE IN THE DARK WASHINGTON SQUARE DJ, NOW PROTECTED IN MYLAR WRAP; A little water-spotting and wear noted at spine. HERCULE POIROT #1. Acceptable. quite tanned but not brittle pages. Jacket is in good shape.

By Daphne Du Maurier. Jamaica Inn, Doubleday & Company MXXXVI, BCE. 243 pages. INCLUDES RARE ORIGINAL REX WHISTLER 1ST EDITION UNCLIPPED DUST JACKETFits volume size 5 3/8 X 8 1/8.Original cover price $4.50. Includes good condition Library bound. DJ is taped to the book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. First printing. SIGNED by Anne Rice on an attached cardstock page nicely matching the tone of the other pages. Ex-libris bookplate, not written on, to back of ffep. Clean, square, fairly tight book with some rubbing and a few bits of soil to boards as if it had been handled out of its dust jacket for a time. Jacket has only minor edgewear, two small chips at flap folds, and a 1cm closed tear to bottom of front panel. Shows a little toning at extremities and is slightly offset where it wraps about the spine. Presents nicely in fresh mylar dj protector.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing of Stephen King's first book. First Edition stated on copyright page, with P6 code printed in the gutter of p. 199 of the text indicating the first state. A great copy, which I will try to describe thoroughly to prospective buyers. This is a bright and square copy in maroon cloth that has a few minor spots of rubbing/soil remnants, perhaps as if the book was handled a bit outside of the jacket. The book seems too tight to have been read. The gilt titling to the spine is bright, with a few small rubbed imperfections in "Carrie". Light rubbing to cloth at bottom of boards, but not nearly worn through. Rear paste-down has a small, 5mm defect at the corner, where it is torn but still pasted down. Original, price-clipped dust jacket is bright with some edgewear, crinkling at lower front flap fold, with a piece of scotch tape also having been applied to the inside… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977 First printing of the stated first edition, first issue with the publisher’s code “R49” printed in the gutter of p. 447; in original first issue dust jacket. Basis for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation starring Jack Nicholson. Book with light rubbing to spine ends and a tiny crimp to the bottom front corner, else in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine and flap margins, faint crimping to upper spine end, very faint crease to upper front corner, and light wear to extremities, primarily at the edge of bottom spine, else fine. an exceptional copy indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No dust jacket. John Rea Neill, illustrator for many of L. Frank Baum's Oz books. 110 pages. Gilt top edge. Publisher's green cloth. Binding is square and strong. Contains Poe's poems "The Raven," The Bells," and "Annabel Lee," as well as an excerpt from his "The Philosophy of Composition." The mounted full color illustration on the cover has some edge wear. Spine and tips have edge wear and rubbing. FFEP has a half-inch closed tear at the center edge. Owner's inscription to blank end paper. No other or writing or foxing. Contents are otherwise very clean. A rare book.

702Christie10LittleIndian Ten Little Indians Dodd, Mead Greenway Edition, Copyright 1967 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. States: First published in the Greenway Edition in the United States 1978. Number line starts with 2. Used. As New Condition/VG Unclipped original bright orange fish motif dust jacket. Originally price on front flap $8.95 A nice, crisp copy in a mylar wrap. DJ spine states 24. Our DJ spine is slightly sunned. "Ten Little Indians, aka And Then There Were None and (offensive language alert) Ten Little N*ggers, is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November, 1939 as Ten Little N-ggers, after the children's counting and minstrel song, which serves as a major plot element."

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Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn 1936 First Edition. Doubleday Doran & Co. RARE. Title page states 1936. Used. Good-/ New Fax Whistler Dust Jacket. Condition: Front board was cracked in half in shipment and has now been taped from inside. Fabric is intact. Other than this damage the book is in good overall condition. Priced accordingly. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne de Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat"