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.

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.

New York, Rinehart and Co, 1960, hardcover, 245 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, text-block edges deeply tanned as is common with this book. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight spine-end, edge and corner nicks, two short closed edge tears to front panel, rear panel rubbed, in new Brodart sleeve. The classic modern novel, one of the earliest in the psychological thriller genre, and basis for the 1962 Robert Aldrich film, starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Victor Buono.

The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers 1st Edition) BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Publisher's dk. 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. Ads list eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss [Gasson p. 160.]Used. Good- Condition: Our copy lacks its spine, otherwise in good condition and a good candidate for rebinding. Chocolate brown endpapers are in good shape. Please see our photos. Your offers are welcome here.

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.

SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING & PROFESSIONALLY AUTHENTICATED BY PSA/DNA. Includes their ironclad certificate of authenticity. Also nicely inscribed and dated as shown. Lovely near-fine condition: the book appears unread and there's only mild blemishes on the boards and dust jacket. Extremely scarce with authenticated signature. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.

By Daphne Du Maurier. Jamaica Inn, Doubleday & Company MXXXVI, BCE. 243 pages. INCLUDES RARE ORIGINAL REX WHISTLER 1ST EDITION UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. Fits 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. We consider offers.

PSA AUTHENTICATED & SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING. Includes ironclad PSA full Letter of Authenticity. Also inscribed as shown. Complete & uncut edition, later printing, with Holdorf cover. Outstanding condition: appears unread, so text pristine; boards have sharp corners and bright lettering; DJ only mild blemishes and now protected with new mylar. In my opinion, a breathtaking presentation, completely unmatched anywhere given professional authentication. Expedited shipping is welcome; international buyers please request a shipping quote before purchase. Signed by author.

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.

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. VERY GOOD/ VG Unclipped original bright orange fish motif dust jacket. ffp $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."

Bad Seed, Dodd, Mead Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. A play by Maxwell Anderson. Adapted from the original novel "The Bad Seed" by William March. 1955. Used. Good Condition/ Fair Child Actress Patty McCormack scene from the play on the front cover. "Summary: "Can a child be born evil? This disturbing question underlies the startling events of a new play, based on the best-selling novel by William March."Green boards. 96 pages.

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Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good +. Stacy Drum, Jill Bauman, Charles Lang. A very good, signed limited edition in a very good clamshell slipcase. Letter "O" of 52 lettered copies. Signed by Stephen King, Dean Koontz and dozens of other horror writers on the first pages. This large and heavy textblock has partilly pulled away from the spine covering, see photo. Black clamshell box with a bend on front spine edge. Fine dust jacket. Black cloth binding. Full color illustrations. 786 pp. Octavo. The Best of Cemetery Dance showcases five dozen of the very finest short stories from the first 25 issues of Cemetery Dance magazine. Published over a period of nine years — and still publishing today — Cemetery Dance is the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award, as well as a recent nominee for both the British Fantasy Award and the American Horror Award.Featuring… Read More