Machen Tales

Rottensteiner, Franz (re: E.A. Poe, M.R. James, Blackwood, H.P. Lovecraft, Arkham House, William Morris, Lord Dunsany, J.R.R. Tolkien, Rider Haggard, Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, Franz Kafka, Mervyn Peake, Weird Tales, Machen, Vampires, E.T.A. Hoffman. ++: The Fantasy Book: The Ghostly, the Gothic, the Magical, the Unreal, London Thames and Hudson 1978
ISBN: 0500271194 Very Good Cover By Peter Tybus

....Large format soft cover (not large print), 160 clean pages, fully illustrated in b & w, and in colour, minor shelf wear, no names or store stamps. Contents include: Gothic origins / Early grandmasters of fantasy: E. T. A. Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Gogol, and Russian fantasy / Themes and characters: Vampires, A gentleman from Transylvania, Werewolves, The Golem / Ghost and horror stories in Britain: Victorian ghost stories, Le Fanu and others, The classic English ghost story, M.R. James and others, Psychic subtleties, de la Mare, Machen, Blackwood / Horror in the USA: Bierce and the inheritance of Poe, The demonic vision of H. P, Lovecraft, Horror publishers: Arkhamn House and others, The Cthulhu Mythos, The Magazines: Weird Tales and others / Alternative worlds: William Morris, Lord Dunsany, J.R.R. Tolkien / Fantasy and popular fiction: Exotic adventure, Rider Haggard / The lighter side of fantasy: Lewis Carroll, Unknown Worlds / Fantasy and the search for meaning: C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Franz Kafka, Mervyn Peake / The international contribution / Fantasy now / Bibliography / index. Any image direclty beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo! First Edition Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

[SW: FANTASY FICTION HISTORY CRITICISM LITERARY, ....Large format soft cover (not large print), 160 clean pages, fully illustrated in b & w, and in colour, minor shelf wear, no names or store stamps. Contents include: Gothic origins / Early grandmasters of fantasy: E. T. A. Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Gogol, and Russian fantasy / Themes and characters: Vampires, A gentleman from Transylvania, Werewolves, The Golem / Ghost and horror stories in Britain: Victorian ghost stories, Le Fanu and others, The classic English ghost story, M.R. James and others, Psychic subtleties, de la Mare, Machen, Blackwood / Horror in the USA: Bierce and the inheritance of Poe, The demonic vision of H. P, Lovecraft, Horror publishers: Arkhamn House and others, The Cthulhu Mythos, The Magazines: Weird Tales and others / Alternative worlds: William Morris, Lord Dunsany, J.R.R. Tolkien / Fantasy and popular fiction: Exotic adventure, Rider Haggard / The lighter side of fantasy: Lewis Carroll, Unknown Worlds / Fantasy and the search for meaning: C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Franz Kafka, Mervyn Peake / The international contribution / Fantasy now / Bibliography / index. Any image direclty beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!]

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Kaye, Marvin (editor) (Robert E. Howard; William Hope Hodgson; Arthur Machen; Harry Houdini; Seabury Quinn; Otis Adelbert Kline; Clark Ashton Smith; Bram Stoker; William Tenn; H. R. Wakefield; H. P. Lovecraft; Gaston Leroux; Ralph Milne Farley): WEIRD TALES: Skulls in the Stars; The Terror of the Water Tank; The Lost Club; The Hoax of the Spirit Lover; Masked Ball; Why Weird Tales; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan; The House of Ecstasy; The Woman with the Velvet Collar, New York Nelson Doubleday 1988
Very Good Richard Kriegler;

(xxi) 582 pp. Quarter-bound in red on gray boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a short tear and associated creasing on the upper left of the front panel; store stamped on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. Dj art by Richard Kriegler. This anthology contains: Skulls in the Stars by Robert E. Howard; The Terror of the Water Tank by William Hope Hodgson; The Lost Club by Arthur Machen; The Hoax of the Spirit Lover by Harry Houdini; Masked Ball by Seabury Quinn; Why Weird Tales by Otis Adelbert Kline; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan by Clark Ashton Smith; The House of Ecstasy by Ralph Milne Farley; The Woman with the Velvet Collar by Gaston Leroux; The Judge's House by Bram Stoker; Mistress Sary by William Tenn; Ghost Hunt by H. R. Wakefield; H. P. Lovecraft; Robert Bloch; F. Marion Crawford; Hugh B. Cave; Frank Belknap Long; The Stolen Body by H. G. Wells; The Scrawny One by Anthony Boucher; Interim by Ray Bradbury; Eena by Manly Banister; The Look by Maurice Level; Methought I Heard A Voice by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt; Off the Map by Rex Dolphin; The Last Train by Fredric Brown; Ti Michel by W. J. Stamper; In the X-Ray by Fritz Leiber; Speak by Henry Slesar; The Pale Criminal by C. Hall Thompson; The Sombrus Tower by Tanith Lee; Mr George by August Derleth; The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert; Seed by Jack Snow; The Bagheeta by Val Lewton; Funeral in the Fog by Edward D. Hoch; The Damp Man by Allison V. Harding; Wet Straw by Richard Matheson; Mysteries of the Faceless King by Darrell Schweitzer; More Than Shadow by Dorothy Quick; Chicken Soup by Katherine MacLean and Mary Kornbluth; The Haunted Burglar by W. C. Morrow; Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe; A Child's Dream of a Star by Charles Dickens; The Perfect Host by Theodore Sturgeon; and Sir Thomas More's translation of The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Lucian. Book Club Edition Very Good- Hard Cover 8vo

[SW: supernatural literature; weird tales; horror;]

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Kaye, Marvin (editor) (Robert E. Howard; William Hope Hodgson; Arthur Machen; Harry Houdini; Seabury Quinn; Otis Adelbert Kline; Clark Ashton Smith; Bram Stoker; William Tenn; H. R. Wakefield; H. P. Lovecraft; Gaston Leroux; Ralph Milne Farley): WEIRD TALES: Skulls in the Stars; The Terror of the Water Tank; The Lost Club; The Hoax of the Spirit Lover; Masked Ball; Why Weird Tales; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan; The House of Ecstasy; The Woman with the Velvet Collar, New York Nelson Doubleday 1988
Very Good Richard Kriegler;

(xxi) 582 pp. Quarter-bound in red on gray boards; lettered in yellow on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Richard Kriegler. This anthology contains: Skulls in the Stars by Robert E. Howard; The Terror of the Water Tank by William Hope Hodgson; The Lost Club by Arthur Machen; The Hoax of the Spirit Lover by Harry Houdini; Masked Ball by Seabury Quinn; Why Weird Tales by Otis Adelbert Kline; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan by Clark Ashton Smith; The House of Ecstasy by Ralph Milne Farley; The Woman with the Velvet Collar by Gaston Leroux; The Judge's House by Bram Stoker; Mistress Sary by William Tenn; Ghost Hunt by H. R. Wakefield; H. P. Lovecraft; Robert Bloch; F. Marion Crawford; Hugh B. Cave; Frank Belknap Long; The Stolen Body by H. G. Wells; The Scrawny One by Anthony Boucher; Interim by Ray Bradbury; Eena by Manly Banister; The Look by Maurice Level; Methought I Heard A Voice by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt; Off the Map by Rex Dolphin; The Last Train by Fredric Brown; Ti Michel by W. J. Stamper; In the X-Ray by Fritz Leiber; Speak by Henry Slesar; The Pale Criminal by C. Hall Thompson; The Sombrus Tower by Tanith Lee; Mr George by August Derleth; The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert; Seed by Jack Snow; The Bagheeta by Val Lewton; Funeral in the Fog by Edward D. Hoch; The Damp Man by Allison V. Harding; Wet Straw by Richard Matheson; Mysteries of the Faceless King by Darrell Schweitzer; More Than Shadow by Dorothy Quick; Chicken Soup by Katherine MacLean and Mary Kornbluth; The Haunted Burglar by W. C. Morrow; Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe; A Child's Dream of a Star by Charles Dickens; The Perfect Host by Theodore Sturgeon; and Sir Thomas More's translation of The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Lucian. Book Club Edition Very Good Hard Cover 8vo

[SW: supernatural literature; weird tales; horror;]

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MacHen, Arthur; Edited and Introduced By S.T. Joshi: The White People and Other Tales: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (First Edition) Chaosium Inc. 2003
ISBN: 1568821727 Near Fine

FIRST PRINTING. Unread copy with very lightest of shelf rub to cover edge. Trade paperback. Comprised of the tales: The Red Hand, The White Pepole, A Fragment of Life, The Angels of Mons, The Great Return, Out of the Earth, The coming of the Terror, The Happy Children and the Prose-Poems of Ornaments of Life. Call of Cthulhu. First Edition No Jacket Soft Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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