Fantastic Literature

THE NECRONOMICON: Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre

Lovecraft, Machen, Howard, Chambers and Hearn · 2021

£37.95 (€45.49 | $50.14 | ¥8,006)

Arcturus 1st edition. Unspeakable evils, elder gods, and forgotten terrors haunt the pages within this volume. Whether telling of the emergence of the tentacled Cthulhu in "The Call of Cthulhu" or the rise of an ancient pagan deity in "The Great God Pan", fine hardcover in a f...

PERTURBED SPIRITS: A Book of Ghost & Terror Stories

Bull R C (editor) · 1954

£32.95 (€39.50 | $43.53 | ¥6,951)

Arthur Barker 1st edition. A fantastic collection of very varied, striking and hard-to-find stories, from late 19th Century to the early 20th Century very good hardcover in a worn and frayed near very good dustwrapper

THE ARM OF MRS EGAN and other stories

Harvey W F · 1951

£16.95 (€20.32 | $22.39 | ¥3,576)

Dent 1st edition. Strange tales by the author of The Beast with Five Fingers, and listed in Bleiler's The Guide to Supernatural Fiction very good hardcover no dustwrapper

A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

Westall Robert · 1989

£10.95 (€13.13 | $14.47 | ¥2,310)

Methuen 1st edition. Cat stories fine hardcover in a fine, George Smith, dustwrapper.

THE SEARCH FOR JOSEPH TULLY

Hallahan William H · 1974

£32.95 (€39.50 | $43.53 | ¥6,951)

Macmillan 1st UK edition. This superb and atmospheric novel, first published in 1974 to widespread critical acclaim, is a harrowing story of revenge, alienation, genealogy, history, and the occult. fine hardcover in a fineMichael Farrell, dustwrapper.

FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES: 30 Great Tales of Fantasy and Horror from the Classic Pulp Magazines Famous Fantastic Mysteries & Fantastic Novels

Dziemianowicz Stefan R et al (editor) · 1991

£23.95 (€28.71 | $31.64 | ¥5,053)

Gramercy not 1st edition. This book has thirty stories from the long-running (81 issues) magazine Famous Fantastic Mysteries. fine hardcover in a fine, Virgil Finlay, dustwrapper. World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology (1992)

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO SUCK

Chetwynd-Hayes R · 1998

£26.95 (€32.30 | $35.60 | ¥5,686)

Hale 1st edition. Ex-lib. Editor Stephen Jones collects fifteen blood-sucking tales written by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, Britain's reigning prince of chill -- including a brand-new story featuring his psychic detective Frances St. Clare near fine hardcover in a near fine, Baraba...

HORROR QUICKIES Vol.2

Hudgins Steve · 2021

£6.95 (€8.33 | $9.18 | ¥1,466)

Independenty published 1st edition. Horror Quickies. "Hudgins is a Horror-Meister to Reckon with!" VICTOR MILLER - Writer of Friday the 13th fine trade paperback

THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE & Other Strange Tales

Walter Elizabeth, Brzeski Dave (editor) · 2017

£17.95 (€21.52 | $23.71 | ¥3,787)

Shadow Publishing 2nd edition. All of Elizabeth Walter's 31 short stories collected in one volume for the first time. Supernatural, eerie and uncanny tales from her all wondrous collections fine trade paperback

THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL

McMains H F · 2000

£15.95 (€19.12 | $21.07 | ¥3,365)

Kentucky 1st edition. For centuries, rumors have circulated in England that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell did not die of natural causes. Now, in a fascinating book that reads like a historical whodunit, we have a motive, a means, and a murderer fine hardcover copy in a fine d...

THE HAUNTING TALES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Hawthorne Nathaniel, Hayes Michael (editor) · 1980

£17.95 (€21.52 | $23.71 | ¥3,787)

John Calder 1st edition. They are certainly not "scary" stories, but can still be called "haunting" as they peel back the veil on some unsettling aspects of human nature. I particularly liked "The Artist of the Beautiful," fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper

THE OXFORD BOOK OF TWENTIETH CNETURY GHOST STORIES

Cox Michael (editor) · 1996

£23.95 (€28.71 | $31.64 | ¥5,053)

Oxford 1st edition. Michael Cox introduces The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories, a unique collection of 33 of the best and most chilling ghost stories of our era. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper

THE VIRAGO BOOK OF GHOST STORIES

Dalby Richard (editor) · 1987

£7.95 (€9.53 | $10.50 | ¥1,677)

Virago 1st edition. An intriguing collection of ghost stories by women.All of these pieces were written during the twentieth century ranging from work by Edwardian writers like Edith Wharton and Edith Nesbit to more contemporary authors like Joan Aiken near fine hardcover copy...

WHO KILLED KIT MARLOWE?

Trow M J · 2001

£12.95 (€15.52 | $17.11 | ¥2,732)

Sutton 1st edition. Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of the Elizabethan drama, a schemer and player who inhabited a seamy underworld in which plots proliferated. When he died, stabbed through the eye at 29, it seemed he had met with the death fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper

THE SEVENTH BLACK BOOK OF HORROR

Black Charles (editor) · 2010

£7.95 (€9.53 | $10.50 | ¥1,677)

Mortbury Press 1st edition. This book of short stories was excellent. There were some really great short stories here. This is the first black book of horror I've ever read, and it won't be the last. fine b-format paperback, Paul Mudie cover

SHADOWLANDS: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

Green Matthew · 2022

£10.95 (€13.13 | $14.47 | ¥2,310)

Faber & Faber reprint edition. Up-and-coming author, and social historian, Matthew Green undertakes a personal journey through Britain’s lost places, the shadowlands of which only scant, mysterious traces survive. fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustwrapper

VLAD THE IMPALER: In Search of the Real Dracula

Trow M J · 2003

£21.95 (€26.31 | $29.00 | ¥4,631)

Sutton 1st edition. Layers of myth and history are peeled back to reveal the real Vlad the Impaler. fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustwrapper

THE GHOST STORIES OF EDITH WHARTON

Wharton Edith · 1975

£23.95 (€28.71 | $31.64 | ¥5,053)

Constable reprint edition. Edith Wharton may be an unlikely ghost story writer, but she does it rather well. As you would expect they are well written and have subtlety and nuance and don’t have the gore and bludgeoning of some modern horror. fine hardcover copy in a fine dust...

THE WITNESSES ARE GONE

Lane Joel · 2009

£127.95 (€153.37 | $169.04 | ¥26,993)

PS PUblishing 1st edition. The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the underworld in all the wrong places. Martin Swann, its narrator, moves into an old house and finds a box of videocassettes in the garden shed. fine hardcover copy pictorial boards as...

PHANTOM LOVERS

Baker Denys Val (editor) · 1984

£17.95 (€21.52 | $23.71 | ¥3,787)

William Kimber 1st edition. Ex lib copy with some stamps. very good hardcover copy in a very good dustwrapper, ex lib copywith some stamps