Category: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.

Price: £425.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1999.

Seller ID: 01092

ISBN: 1872621473

Binding: Hardcovers.

Condition: Fine copies in fine dustjackets (as new) with errata sheet laid in.

Two volumes: 400 and 475 pages each. With an appreciation by David Tibet. Collects all the stories in all the author's scarce short story collections. Published by Tartarus Press in conjunction with Durtro Press. 500 hardcover sets printed. With publisher's printed errata sheet laid in.
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Powers Of Darkness.

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.

Seller ID: 07480

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collection of supernatural stories. First published in 1966, this Tartarus editiion (2nd printing) contains an eight page introduction by Mark Valentine.
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Dark Entries (350 copies).

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.

Seller ID: 29440

ISBN: 1905784325

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collection of supernatural stories, first published in 1964: this edition has a new four page introduction by Glen Cavaliero. Limited to 350 hardcover copies.

''Robert Aickman was perhaps the finest writer of the ghost story in the second half of the 20th century, and although little of his work is pure fantasy - only a few of his 45 or so stories, and neither of his novels, actually take leave of the mundane world in any sense, except as a prelude to death - he is of absorbing interest in our context because he demonstrates the range of meaning that may be extracted from the devices o...
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Cold Hand In Mine: Strange Stories.

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.

Seller ID: 30089

ISBN: 1905784341

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collection of supernatural stories. First published in 1975, this Tartarus reprint contains a new introduction by Phil Baker.

''Robert Aickman was perhaps the finest writer of the ghost story in the second half of the 20th century, and although little of his work is pure fantasy - only a few of his 45 or so stories, and neither of his novels, actually take leave of the mundane world in any sense, except as a prelude to death - he is of absorbing interest in our context because he demonstrates the range of meaning that may be extracted from the devices of any form of fantastic literatur...
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The Attempted Rescue.

Price: £37.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2013.

Seller ID: 36100

ISBN: 1905784597

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Autobiography: 246 pages. Eight page foreword by Jeremy Dyson. Originally published in 1966, followed by a 1st Tartarus Press printing (red dustjacket) in 2001. This Tartarus reprint (in cream/yellow dustjacket) has some (minor?) revisions to the introduction.
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The River Runs Uphill: A Story Of Success And Failure.

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.

Seller ID: 37316

ISBN: 1905784686

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

290 pages: the author's second volume of autobiography, following THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE (1966). First published in 1986, this Tartarus Press edition contains a new short introduction by Rosalie Parker. Limited to 350 hardcover copies.
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Sub Rosa.

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2013.

Seller ID: 37317

ISBN: 1905784287

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Supernatural short story collection first published by Victor Gollancz in 1968: this edition has a five page introduction by R. B. Russell. The Tartarus Press first printing was in 2010.
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Tales Of Love And Death.

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.

Seller ID: 37355

ISBN: 1905784287

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collection of supernatural stories, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1977. This Tartarus Press edition (2nd printing - the first was in 2012) contains a nine page introduction by Michael Dirda.
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Night Voices (2nd printing with two extra stories).

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.

Seller ID: 39691

ISBN: 1905784562

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

The last, posthumously published collection of stories by Aickman, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1985. The Tartarus Press first printing of 2013 reprinted those five long stories plus a lot more, beginning with a new introduction by Barry Humphries. Also included was the weird novella THE MODEL (posthumously published in 1987), plus Aickman's ''An Essay'' (written on winning the first World Fantasy Award in 1976), additionally this volume includes all seven of his Introductions to the seven volumes in The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series which he edited: and finally the six-p...
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Intrusions (2nd printing with one extra story).

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.

Seller ID: 39692

ISBN: 1905784481

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

The author's last collection of stories (while still alive), first published by Victor Gollancz in 1980. The Tartarus Press 2012 1st printing collected those six long supernatural stories, plus a new seven page introduction by Reggie Oliver. However this Tartarus Press 2nd printing of 2015 also now adds a further story ''The Stranger'', the titles story from the 2015 Tartarus Press Aickman collection The Strangers And Other Writings, which went o/p very quickly (more or less by the time of publication) and will NOT be reprinted.
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Go Back At Once.

By: Aickman, Robert (& Elizabeth Jane Howard)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2020.

Seller ID: 48816

ISBN: 1912586290

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

362 page fantasy: ''completed by Robert Aickman in August 1975, a previously unpublished novel set in the 1920s telling the story of two young English women, Cressida Hazeborough and her friend Vivien. The story really begins when Cressida asks, ''Vivien, who is Virgilio Vittore?''. The girls learn that Vittore has personally annexed the state of Trino and is now governing it according to the laws of music. Vittore is based on the Italian poet and author Gabriele DAnnunzio (1863-1938), who similarly annexed Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) in 1920. Go Back at Once is, in many ways, a very persona...
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We Are For The Dark: Six Ghost Stories.

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.

Seller ID: 48176

ISBN: 1905784422

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collects three long supernatural stories by each author: 258 pages. First published by Jonathan Cape in 1951, the first Tartarus Press printing was in 2011, with a new eight page introduction by R. B. Russell.
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Written With My Left Hand.

By: Barker, Nugent

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.

Seller ID: 37455

ISBN: 1905784678

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with short typed letter from publisher Ray Russell laid in.

The author's collection of twenty-one macabre, humour and fantasy stories, first published in 1951: the first Tartarus Press printing was in 2002, with a new introduction by Douglas A. Anderson and Bibliographical Notes. This 2nd Tartarus Press printing is from 2014.
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The Cheetah-Girl (Being The MS, Not Published With The Collection Under The Title Of ''The Purple Sapphire'' (+ Addendum slip).

By: Blayre, Christopher (Edward Heron-Allen)

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1998.

Seller ID: 00186

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) plus addendum slip,

72 pages. Short story privately originally published by the author as a twenty copy limited edition in 1923: ''this once controversial story of human-feline miscenegation was considered too erotic for publication in the author's early collection THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE''. LIMITED EDITION: 99 numbered hardcover copies ptinted. Note however that this copy is unnumbered but left blank with an ink line where the limitation number should be. Laid in is an addendum slip relating to the text.
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Muladona.

By: Carlson, Eric Sterner

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.

Seller ID: 40646

ISBN: 1905784848

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Supernatural Southern Gothic horror novel set in Texas at the end of WW2.

''1918. In the dying days of World War I, the Spanish Flu devastates the small town of Incarnation, Texas. The sheriff closes the church and quarantines the dying in the schoolhouse. The townsfolk huddle alone in their houses to avoid infection. Each new day brings fresh corpses. But something worse than the flu is coming. Verge Strmberg, son of the domineering town pastor, is a sickly boy who lives in a world of books. His mother disappeared when he was seven, his older brother ran away. Now his father leaves h...
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The Justice Of The Night: Poems.

By: Cavaliero., Glen

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2007.

Seller ID: 20383

ISBN: 1905784015

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Hardbound collection of poems: 88 pages.
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Green Thoughts & Other Stories.

By: Collier, John

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.

Seller ID: 41314

ISBN: 1905784872

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

26 stories ''with a fantastic streak and elements of horror'': 294 pages with an introduction.

''John Collier (1901-1980) is best remembered for his short stories, although he was also a poet, novelist and screenwriter. He was given the Edgar Award and the International Fantasy Award in 1952 for the collection Fancies and Goodnights, and several of his most memorable tales were adapted for television and film. Colliers tales are clever with a light touch, although he often added dark satire to the humour, in the vein of Swift, whom he admired. The twenty-six stories in this collection c...
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Uncanny Tales.

By: Crawford, F. Marion

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2008.

Seller ID: 00749

ISBN: 1905784112

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

First published by Tartarus Press in 1999 in an edition of just 250 copies. 12-page introduction by Richard Dalby. Additional stories not included in the original 1911 edition are the author's own ''lost'' story, ''The King's Messenger'', and also three supernatural stories by his two sisters. With handwritten letter from the publisher laid in stating that this is a pre-publication complimentary copy.
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Morbid Tales (presentation copy from the author)

By: Crisp, Quentin S.

Price: £175.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2004.

Seller ID: 13629

ISBN: 187262183X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Eight weird stories: 226 pages. Introduction by Mark Samuels. 300 copies printed. PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED AND DATED AT TIME OF PUBLICATION (November 2004) BY THE AUTHOR TO A FELLOW UK WEIRD FICTION WRITER/'' To - - , who must forever bear the ''agony and nightmare'' of responsibility for this noxious tome's manifestation in this dimension, Quentin S. Crisp,Nov. 2004''.
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Morbid Tales.

By: Crisp, Quentin S.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2004.

Seller ID: 13653

ISBN: 187262183X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Eight weird stories: 226 pages. Introduction by Mark Samuels. 300 copies printed.
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The Way Things End.

By: David, Charles

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2019.

Seller ID: 45728

ISBN: 1912586177

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Weird/sf novel, the author's first book.

''the year is 1940 and blues musician Roosevelt Sands is on the run for murder when he lays down in the middle of a southern crossroads and plays a song that initiates the collapse of the universe. What follows is the slow demise of the world, as the music expands outward from its source to the edge of creation and back again. For forty years the music seeks to return to the place from which it came. During this time, a slow unravelling of reality brings forth supernatural events that influence and shape the interconnected lives of people around ...
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The Girl With The Peacock Harp.

By: Eisele, Michael

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.

Seller ID: 41471

ISBN: 1905784899

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new)..

The author's first book. Collects fifteen strange stories: 268 pages. Limited to 300 (unnumbered) hardcover copies.

''The fifteen strange stories that comprise this stunning debut collection range over the fantastic, the supernatural and the psychological. In An Old Tale, a young ballet student discovers hope beyond the barriers of death. The Music tells of a violinist who must face the ghosts of his past; and those ghosts are brought to life in The Beginning. In Gloria and the Selchie a modern Irish girl discovers that the stories her old granny told her are all too true, while in Th...
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Tree Spirit And Other Strange Tales.

By: Eisele, Michael

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2018.

Seller ID: 44133

ISBN: 978912586028

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

292 pages. Limited to 300 (unnumbered) copies.
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The New Inn Hall Deception: Tales of Mystery And Fear (signed/limited).

By: Gaskin, John

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2019.

Seller ID: 45648

ISBN: 1912586134

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collects the 160 page title novel plus four other short stories. LIMITED EDITION: 380 numbered copies signed by the author.
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Clarimonde And Other Stories.

By: Gautier, Theophile

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.

Seller ID: 30730

ISBN: 1905784384

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

366 pages: collects twelve supernatural tales and other material. Eight page introductrion by Brian Stableford. LIMITED EDITION limited to 300 hardcover copies. With handwritten letter from the publishers laid in/''..I hope you are in the mood for a little decadence..''.
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One Morning.

By: Hagy, Jessica

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2020.

Seller ID: 47773

ISBN: 1912586266

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Weird ''gothic novel that tells the story of Gour Borough, Pennsylvania via the subjective and interwoven perspectives of twelve women who live there - a middle-aged taxidermist who indulges in arson.; an ailing hostage; a mother who stopped searching for her lost child; a disoriented shepherdess; a feral tween huntress; an exhausted wife with a secret bank account; an innocent girl with a bounty on her head; an untethered orphan; a gleefully passive murderer; an underemployed geologist; a scheming hotel proprietor in a ghoulish costume; a teenager with a dead pen pal. Taking place over a sin...
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Londonia.

By: Hardy, Kate A.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2020.

Seller ID: 46343

ISBN: 1912586193

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Post-apocalyptic sf novel.

''Londonia is a magnificently immersive page-turner. Set in 2072, it seems at first to be a dystopia in which the internet and other modern technologies have collapsed. An elite have sealed themselves up in Central London, while everyone else has to get on as best they can, making-do, bartering, and cooperating with their neighbours. Moving between the two societies is Hoxton, a ''Finder'' of desirable objects, her own past a mystery to be solved, with the help of new friends. Can hope and friendship survive in this strange new world?''.
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Nightmare-Touch.

By: Hearn, Lafcadio

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2010.

Seller ID: 27753

ISBN: 1905784198

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Short story collection: edited and with an introduction by Paul A. Murray. ''His hobbies were fantastic. He knew all manner of odd things, dreadful things, uncanny things. He was purblind, and the shadow of a telegraph pole rose to him 'the shadow of a gigantic skeleton'. He studied Hoodooism [sic], witchcraft, etc. . . and knew all the horrible things about the old-time doings-frightful, barbaric, hideous punishments, etc.; and he knew some of the sweetest poetry in all tongues''. So wrote an acquaintance of prolific horror writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). But in his writing Hearn was no...
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The Princess Daphne (only approx.150 copies issued).

By: Heron-Allen, Edward (& Selina Dolaro)

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2001.

Seller ID: 06196

ISBN: 1872621570

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for several small light stains along top page edges.

Introduction by R. B. Russell and Rosalie Parker: plus biographical notes by ''Christopher Blayre'' and an Heron-Allen bibliography.. By the author who later wrote under the pseudonym Christopher Blayre, this is an entertaining novel of the fantastic written in the 1880's: often described as a tale of psychic vampirism, it is a story of mesmerism, doppelgangers and metapsychosis. LIMITED EDITIION: 300 numbered copies printed (though due to a printing/binding error only about half this number were actually released). This is no 73.
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The Clockworm And Other Strange Stories.

By: Heuler, Karen

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2018.

Seller ID: 45040

ISBN: 191258610X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collects 19 weird stories, six published here for the first time: ''Heulers voice is refreshingly original, and readers will find these stories remarkably inventive and brimming with ideas not found anywhere else in contemporary fantasy fiction'' (Publishers Weekly). Limited to 300 hardcover copies.

''you find youre just one of many copies being generated by a 3-D printer, or hear that the earth is the subject of a rather cheerful invasion. Whatever the trouble, you still have to find your way. Playful, sober, profound and profane, the characters in Karen Heulers stories may build bri...
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The Wandering Soul: Glimpses Of A Life, A Compendium Of Rare And Unpublished Works.

By: Hodgson, William Hope

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2005.

Seller ID: 45645

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Edited by Jane Frank: introduction by Mike Ashley. 384 pages. A joint publication with PS Publishing: Hornsea. 500 numbered copies of THE WANDERING SOUL were printed, the first 150 copies of which were slipcased together with a second volume THE LOST POETRY (150 copies printed of the 1st printing). This is no 28.
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The Lost Poetry Of William Hope Hodgson.

By: Hodgson, William Hope (ed. Jane Frank)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2005.

Seller ID: 16670

ISBN: 1904619312

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Originally published only as a 150-copy companion volume for those buying the slipcased edition of The Wandering Soul (April, 2005), this reprint (250 copies) was published separately three months later (July, 2005), available for the first time by itself. A joint Tartarus/PS Publishing collaboration. 138 pages.
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Figurehead.

By: Holmes, Carly

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2018.

Seller ID: 44458

ISBN: 1912586061

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Short story collection: ''peers into every corner of the strange fiction genre: from rural gothic through to traditional ghost stories, the uncanny, and folk horror''. 300 hardcover copies printed.
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The Smell Of Telescopes (250-numbered/signed).

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2000.

Seller ID: 02920

ISBN: 1872621449

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

270 pages: weird, macabre/fantasy stories, following his earlier collection WORMING THE HARPIE from the same publisher. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author. This copy is no. 11.
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Worming The Harpy And Other Bitter Pills (226 copies printed)..

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1995.

Seller ID: 07461

ISBN: 187262120X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with signed typed letter from publisher Ray Russell (to the book reviewer at the Daily Express) affixed (with small piece of tape) to the front free endpaper.

Short story collection. LIMITED EDITION: 226 numbered copies printed. This is no 165.
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Stories From A Lost Anthology (150 signed/limited)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2002.

Seller ID: 09134

ISBN: 1872621686

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

296 pages: collection of weird stories, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock. LIMITED EDITION: from a total of 400 copies printed, this is one of the first 150 numbered and signed by the author.
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Orpheus On The Underground And Other Stories.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.

Seller ID: 37999

ISBN: 1905784716

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publicity material laid in.

New collection of stories, all but one previously unpublished: 212 pages.
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Stories From A Lost Anthology (inscribed by the author).

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2002.

Seller ID: 36016

ISBN: 1872621686

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

296 pages: collection of weird stories, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock. 400 copies printed, of which the first 150 were numbered and signed by the author. This is one of 250 unnumbered/unsigned copies. BRIEFLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Loney (300-copy signed/limited).

By: Hurley, Andrew Michael

Price: £425.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.

Seller ID: 37474

ISBN: 1905784694

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

British horror novel in the tradition of The Wicker Man. To be made into a film. Limited to 300 hardcover copies signed by the author.

''exploring issues of faith and the survival of older beliefs, Andrew Michael Hurleys beautifully atmospheric and moving novel has at its heart the relationship between two London Catholic boys, Smith and his mute, mentally disabled brother Hanny. The discovery of the remains of a young child during winter storms along the bleak Lancashire coastline leads Smith back to the Saint Judes Church Easter pilgrimage to The Loney in 1976. Not all of the loca...
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This Spectacular Darkness: Critical Essays.

By: Lane, Joel

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.

Seller ID: 41788

ISBN: 1905784902

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

338 pages: edited by Mark Valentine and John Howard. Foreword by Mark Valentine. Collects Joel Lane's essays written for Wormwood magazine (including pieces on Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, Cornell Woolrich, Fritz Leiber, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell, H. P. Lovecraft and Ramsey Campbell), plus other essays from other publications (including pieces on Robert Bloch, The Cthulhu Mythos, Ramsey Campbell and Robert Aickman), plus appeciations of Joel Lane's own fiction and poetry by both editors, Nina Allan and Matt Joiner. 300 hardcover copies printed.
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Frankenstein's Prescription.

By: Lees, Tim

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2011.

Seller ID: 29439

ISBN: 1905784295

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Supernatural novel. Limited to 300 hardcover copies.

''Hans Schneider is a drunkard and a womaniser; everyone agrees he's heading for a bad end. When he kills a fellow student in a duel, he finds himself banished to an isolated rural hospital, far from the pleasures he desires. There he meets the mysterious Dr Lavenza, and learns about Frankenstein's prescription-the secret of eternal life. Together, Schneider and Lavenza set out to collect the missing pieces of the formula. But they are not alone. From Germany to Rome, from Rome to Paris, to the failed and wretched Eden of an all-too...
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Mercy And Other Stories.

By: Lloyd, Rebecca

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2014.

Seller ID: 36826

ISBN: 1905784619

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Collection of sixteen weird/supernatural stories. 300 hardcover copies printed.
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Seven Strange Stories.

By: Lloyd, Rebecca

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2017.

Seller ID: 42353

ISBN: 1905784961

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

246 pages: collects seven long weird/fantasy stories. Limited to 300 copies.
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The Child Cephalina.

By: Lloyd, Rebecca

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2019.

Seller ID: 47912

ISBN: 1912586207

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Weird Gothic novel. 300 copies printed.

''Rebecca LLoyd's superb Gothic novel explores friendship, obsession and the uncanny in teeming mid-Victorian London. At its heart is a tale of human relationships threatened by an unknowable force. From the very first, the child Cephalina brought conflict into an otherwise, if eccentric, household at number 12 Judd Street. Robert's fascination with her was instant, but he could never decide if this eleven-year-old was innocent and lonely, or clever and manipulative. It worried him. His encounters with her were both enchanting and unnerving. All ...
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Monsieur de Phocas: Translated From The French With An Introduction And Afterword By Francis Amery (aka Brian Stableford).

By: Lorrain, Jean

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2015.

Seller ID: 39545

ISBN: 1905784783

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

300 pages: 26-page introduction and nine page afterword by Brian Stableford writing as, and indeed translating as, ''Francis Amery''. LIMITED EDITION: 350 copes printed.

''Monsieur de Phocas (1901) has been ranked with Huysmans Rebours (1884) as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. In the novel, Jean Lorrain presents experiences of the darker side of his life in Paris as the adventures of the Duc de Frneuse (Phocas) and his relationship with the svengaliesque English painter Claudius Ethal. Jean Lorrain, born into a shipping family in Normandy in 1855, changed his name to k...
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The Secret Glory.

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1998.

Seller ID: 00679

ISBN: 1872621368

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Reprints for the first time the full text, including chapters five and six. (the original edition of 1922, and subsequent editions, all have only four chapters): new three page preface by Godfrey Brangham.
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The Hill Of Dreams (350 numbered copies).

Price: £250.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 1998.

Seller ID: 15903

ISBN: 1872621317

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

First published in 1907. This first Tartarus Press printing contains for the first time all three of the Sidney Sime illustrations (specially tipped-in for this edition) originally intended (but not used) for the book's first publication (1907), plus the two known introductions written for later editions by the author, plus a new six-page introduction by Mark Valentine. LIMITED EDITION: 350 numbered hardcover copies printed. This is no 168.
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The Cosy Room And Other Stories.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2016.

Seller ID: 41204

ISBN: 1905784813

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

A collection of essays, mystically poetic fragments, and supernatural tales, first published by Rich & Cowan: London in 1936. This new edition adds a 14-page introduction by James Machin.

''a collection of Arthur Machens short stories curated by John Gawsworth (aka Fytton Armstrong) in 1936. As well as exhuming some very early tales published in the first half of the 1890s, Gawsworth included Machens decadent prose poems from Ornaments in Jade, and later work commissioned by Lady Cynthia Asquith for collections such as The Ghost Book (1926) and Shudders (1929). Among other curious ite...
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The Autobiography Of Arthur Machen. Far Off Things, Things Near And Far.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2017.

Seller ID: 42167

ISBN: 1905784929

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

310 pages: collects together Machen's two volumes of autobiography, FAR OFF THINGS (1922) and THINGS NEAR AND FAR (1923), plus a new introduction by writer/comedian Stewart Lee.
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