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Birkin, Charles: A Haunting Beauty. 04073
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2000.
First edition (& 1st printing).
450 copies printed. With the signature (and dated September 2000) of editor Hugh lamb on the front free endpaper. LAID IN IS A CHRISTMAS CARD SIGNED BY CHARLES BIRKIN.
''In the 1960's one author was almost solely responsible for keeping the horror genre alive in Britain, Sir Charles Birkin. In the years from 1964 to 1971 the author produced a string of powerful collections including The Kiss of Death, Spawn of Satan, and The Smell of Evil. In the early 1980's the author and editor Mike Ashley undertook the preparation of a retrospective showcase of the author's work. Efforts to market the volume were curtailed by Birkin's death in 1986 and the collection, A Haunting Beauty has remained lost -- until now. With a special introduction by Sir Charles Birkin nearly two decades after the author and editor began work on it. In this volume the full range and diversity of the author's work is demonstrated by tales that run the gamut from the eerie supernatural thriller ''Ballet Negre'' to the poignant ghostly tale ''Little Boy Blue'' and the grotesqueries of ''Lords of the Refuge''. Also included are a pair of fine examples of stories based on the author's war-time experiences, ''The Mouse Hole'' and a story that has to rank as a masterpiece, ''Waiting for Trains''. While best-known for his disturbing tales of psychological horror, Birkin was also adept at the supernatural tale of terror as is amply demonstrated by this collection''.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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95.00 GBP
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Brennan, Joseph Payne: The Feaster From Afar And Other Ghastly Visitants: The Selected Weird Tales Volume One. 26201
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2008.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Edited by Stefan Dziemanowicz and John Pelan: 286 pages. Collects 24 stories with an introduction by John Pelan.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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35.00 GBP
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Cartmill, Cleve: Prelude To Armageddon.: The Collected Fantastic Fiction, Volume 1. 11652
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2003.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Collects eleven stories most of which had been originally published in the sf magazines/pulps of the early 1940's: edited and with an introduction by John Pelan. First of a projected set of five volumes that will collect all of Cartmill's fiction. 500 copies printed.
'' Heinlein, Simak, Hubbard, de Camp, Cartmill... These are the foundations upon which John W. Campbell built the Golden Age in Street & Smith's Astounding Science Fiction and Unknown Worlds. All of these authors have had much of their fiction collected and are well-known to today's readers. Cleve Cartmill has been remembered primarily for his notoriously prescient atomic bomb story ''Deadline'', which brought Federal Agents swooping down on Campbell's offices worried that there had been a leak at the Manhattan Project. Cleve Cartmill was far, far more than merely the author of this one well-known tale; his fantasy novellas rank among some of the best to have been published in Unknown and his science fiction still holds up well today some sixty years later''.
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Gregory, H. B.: Dark Sanctuary. 07129
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2001.
First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Originally published in 1940 (Rider & Co.: London), this reprint contains a new introduction by D. H. Olson. Scarce in it's original edition, Karl Edward Wagner listed this book as one of the thirteen best novels of supernatural terror (Twilight Zone, 1983). 460 numbered copies printed.
''the novel opens with Anthony Lovell, Sr., master of the ancient abbey of Kestrel and its like-named island off the Cornish coast, raving in madness and fear over the ancient family curse that ''dwells in the bowels of the abbey rock.'' What has caused his madness is unclear, but it is obviously linked to something seen or experienced in Kestrel's ancient crypts. Lovell's son is called back from London and, soon thereafter, John Hamilton, a free-lance journalist and friend to the younger Lovell, makes his way to Kestrel as well. The first thing worth noting in Dark Sanctuary is its use of a historical record to provide authenticity. The history of Kestrel given in chapter one is as fictitious as the abbey and island itself, but it includes just enough real historical data to be believable. Positioned as it is, early in the novel, it also has the benefit of pulling the reader into the story almost immediately.''
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Hansom, Mark: The Beasts Of Brahm. 07744
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2001.
First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Reprint of the scarce 1937 weird thriller: new six page introduction by John Pelan. 450 numbered copies printed.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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20.00 GBP
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Jacobs, Harvey: My Rose & My Glove: Stories (Real and Surreal). 14402
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2005.
First edition (& 1st printing).
The first collection of stories by Harvey Jacobs in thirty-five years: the 1969 volume The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories collected his early work and remains a title sought after by collectors. Drawn from sources such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Omni, New Worlds, and various anthologies, this new volume presents a retrospective of Mr. Jacobs's work since 1970. 500 numbered copies printed.
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Jepson, Edgar: The Garden At 19. 11650
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2003.
First edition thus (& 1st printing).
This new edition features an introduction by John Pelan: 400 copies printed.
''unavailable since its publication before the First World War, The Garden at # 19 is acknowledged Jepson's masterwork. Considered mandatory reading by Aleister Crowley for its stunning portrayal of modern paganism, it is a masterpiece of terror and wonder worthy of comparison to the best of Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen''.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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Muddock, J. E. (aka Dick Donovan): The Shining Hand And Other Tales Of Terror. 14084
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2004.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Reprint of the scarce 1889 collection of supernatural stories with expanded contents (includes the later published ''The Prophecy'', 1926, written under the ''Dick Donovan'' byline): introduction (and edited) by John Pelan. 500 numbered copies printed.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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30.00 GBP
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Pemberton, Clive: The Weird O' It. 04793
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2000.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Supernatural short story collection: edited and with an introduction by John Pelan. New expanded edition of the rare 1906 collection. 450 copies printed.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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22.00 GBP
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Wormser, G. Ranger: The Scarecrow And Other Stories. 07366
Midnight House: Seattle, CA. 2001.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Edited, with a ten-page introduction, by Douglas A. Anderson. Reprint of the 1918 collection of supernatural stories, but including five additional uncollected stories.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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