Category: Horror

The Satan Sleuth #2: The Werewolf Walks Tonight

By: Avallone, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Paperback Library 75-677 : 1974

Seller ID: 018525

ISBN-13: 9780446756778

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

After a deacon's corpse is "hung upside down from the limb of a big juniper tree," the Satan Sleuth finds himself "fighting for reason and right against the Devil and his disciples." The second novel featuring Philip St. George battling the forces of darkness. 158 pages + two pages of advertisements for other Paperback Library titles. Moderate handling wear, light cover soil, some edge foxing. Internally tight.
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The Cry from Street to Street

By: Bailey, Hillary

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, Constable : 1992

Seller ID: 011296

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Mary Kelly, a rich woman after fleeing the horrors of 1880's Whitechapel to become a brothel-keeper on the Canadian frontier, has returned to London to find and rescue her two sisters, but it's now 1888, and a monster who would later become known as Jack the Ripper is just embarking on his bloody mission. Bailey writes in a note at the beginning of her book, "The murderer known as Jack the Ripper killed six women in one square mile of East London between 7 August and 9 November 1888. These women were Martha Tabram, or Turner, Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes -...
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The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

By: Baker, Tom

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber : 1999

Seller ID: 008733

ISBN-13: 9780571197712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: About Very Good

Baker is best known as one of television's many incarnations of Doctor Who. Here he gives us the grotesque and horrific story of an evil 13-year-old who despises the human race and enjoys kicking pigs. A grisly little tale with a ratty ending not for the faint-of-heart. Illustrated boards, 126 pages. Scuffed boards, impressions to covers, tanned edges, moderate general wear.
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Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One (1)

By: Barron, Laird (guest editor) and Michael Kelly (series editor)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: No Place, Undertow Publications / CZP Chizine Publications : 2014

Seller ID: 018928

ISBN-13: 9780981317755

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

A collection of 22 weird stories, including "Success" by Michael Blumlein, "Like Feather, Like Bone" by Kristi DeMeester, "A Terror" by Jeffrey Ford, "The Key to Your Heart Is Made of Brass" by John R. Fultz, "A Cavern of Redbrick" by Richard Gavin, "The Krakatoan" by Maria Dahvana Headley, "Bor Urus" by John Langan, "Furnace" by Livia Llewellyn, "Eyes Exchange Bank" by Scott Nicolay, "A Quest of Dream" by W.H. Pugmire, "(he) Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror" by Joseph S. Pulver Sr., "Dr. Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron" by A.C. Wise, "The Year of the Rat" by Chen Quifan, "Fox into ...
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The Feast of the Wolf

By: Blackburn, Thomas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, MacGibbon & Kee : 1971

Seller ID: 008296

ISBN-13: 9780261632141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Renowned poet's first novel (after five books of verse, a critical study of Robert Browning, and a work of autobiography), in which a newly appointed professor of English at a metropolitan university is "victim of an unusual psychosis -- haunted by vampire, werewolf, all the twittering fauna of nightmare." Dust jacket design by Kinneir Calvert Tuhill. Mild spine cocking, light corner wear, two 1"-square sticker shadows to front free end paper. Dust jacket w/lightly sunned spine, light edgewear, small soil marks.
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The Halloween Tree

By: Bradbury, Ray

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1972

Seller ID: 019119

ISBN-13: 9780394824093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

"A group of children and a 'spirit' go back through time to discover the beginnings of Halloween." Black cloth w/Hallowe'en-orange mask illustration to front cover, orange and silver spine lettering, 145 pages + brief author/illustrator biographies + a note on the type. Mildly cocked, scuffing/faint soil to cloth, gently bumped corners, faint mustiness, in price-clipped dust jacket w/light wear to corners/spine ends, impressions/scratches.
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The Howling

By: Brandner, Gary

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Shifnal, MHB Press : 2010

Seller ID: 018723

ISBN-13: 9780956622167

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First published in the dim dark past that is 1977. Remember 1977? The winner of the Stanley Cup was some team from Quebec; the #1 song on Billboard's top 100 was "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright") by Rod Stewart; the World Series was won by the New York Yankees; Steve Biko was murdered by South African police; New York City endured its infamous 25-hour blackout, a serious boon to looters and lowlife morons; and nobody took advantage of that marvellous 25-hour opportunity to kneecap a pathological liar who would later become a second-rate television reality show host before becoming kno...
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Brother Theodore's Chamber of Horrors

By: Brother Theodore and Marvin Kaye (editors)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Pinnacle Books : 1975

Seller ID: 018198

ISBN-13: 9780523007182

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Brother Theodore (born Theodore Isidore Gottlieb), is, for some reason, mainly forgotten today, but in his prime he had a pretty serious cult following due primarily to his sometimes comedic, sometimes dark, stream-of-consciousness monologues. He appeared on The Merv Griffin Show dozens of times, was on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, The Dick Cavett Show and The Joey Bishop Show. He died in 2001, at the age of 94. (His tombstone boasts one of the all-time great inscriptions: "Known as Brother Theodore / Solo Performer, Comedian, Metaphysician / "As Long as There Is Death, There Is Hope.") M...
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19 Tales of Terror

By: Burnett, Whit and Hallie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam A1550 : 1957

Seller ID: 018814

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Paperback original of an interesting collection of terror/suspense stories, including work by A. E. Sandeling writing A. E. Shandeling ("Return of the Griffins "), John Steinbeck ("The White Quail"), Lord Dunsany ("The Two Bottles of Relish"), Mary Norton ("Paul's Tale"), W. Somerset Maugham ("Lord Mountdrago"), Gloria Neustadt Biggs ("The Cat"), Karen Blixen writing as Isak Dinesen ("The Young Man with the Carnation"), Robert W. Cochran ("Foot of the Giant"), Jerry Wexler ("I Am Edgar"), Ivan Bunin ("The Calling Cards"), Whit Burnett ("The Night of the Gran Baile Mascara"), May Sarton ("The S...
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Consumed

By: Cronenberg, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Canada : 2014

Seller ID: 018133

ISBN-13: 9780670069002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The director of such feel-good films as Dead Ringers, Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and many similar heartwarming tales, presents the timeless story of a husband-and-wife pair of French intellectuals, the wife found dead and partially eaten in their Paris apartment, the husband deciding that a little trip to Tokyo might be a real good idea. When a young journalist travels to Tokyo to interview the hungry little bugger, her boyfriend seduces a cancer patient and gets a sexually transmitted disease whose origin he traces to a ritzy community in Toronto. Just a light-hearted romantic romp, really ...
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Gene Day's Black Zeppelin, #3, August/Aug. 1985

By: Day, Gene

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Burbank, Renegade Press : 1985

Seller ID: 015702

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

The third issue of the black-and-white horror comic originally intended to publish early art and stories by Gene Day, but which eventually included material by other people, too. This issue contains a story written and illustrated by Day, a story by him illustrated by Bruce Conklin, and a story by A. Funnell, illustrated by Day. General handling wear. These don't appear to be terribly common.
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Geek Love

By: Dunn, Katherine

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf : 1989

Seller ID: 019208

ISBN-13: 9780394569024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dunn's third published novel, and the one that established her reputation, telling the story of a pair of carnies "who as a cost-saving measure hit upon the idea of breeding their own freak show." One of those freakish offspring, an albino hunchback dwarf, narrates the tale. The words "weird" and "wonderful" were coined to describe this one. Peacock-blue boards w/black cloth backstrip w/bronze spine lettering, 348 pages. Previous owner's name on first end paper, in price-clipped dust jacket w/mildly sunned spine (common with this title), rubbing, impressions.
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MONSTER, MONSTER, The Complete Illustrated Skywald Horror-Mood Masterpiece (signed)

By: Funnell, Augustine

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Somewhere deep in the heart of Horror-Mood country, superggraphics/George Warner/A Horror-Mood Magazine : 2016

Seller ID: 018787

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: New

Collects all nine stories that went into the Monster, Monster series, here wonderfully restored from the originals and edited by superggraphics' George Warner. A limited edition of 60 copies, of which this is #35. The short synopsis: a less-than-attractive boy is bullied, transforms into a bloodthirsty werewolf (as opposed to those vegan werewolves striking mild dread into everyone's heart), then exacts revenge. A lot of it. On a lot of people. Some of it even makes sense. Originally published by Skywald Publishing in the 1970s, and edited by the incomparable "Archaic" Alan Hewetson, who died ...
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MONSTER, MONSTER, The Complete Illustrated Skywald Horror-Mood Masterpiece (signed)

By: Funnell, Augustine

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Somewhere deep in the heart of Horror-Mood country, superggraphics/George Warner/A Horror-Mood Magazine : 2016

Seller ID: 018874

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Collects all nine stories that went into the Monster, Monster series, here wonderfully restored from the originals and edited by superggraphics' George Warner. The synopsis: a less-than-attractive boy is bullied, transforms into a bloodthirsty werewolf (as opposed to those vegan werewolves striking mild dread into everyone's heart), then exacts revenge. A lot of it. On a lot of people. Some of it even makes sense. Originally published by Skywald Publishing in the 1970s, and edited by the incomparable "Archaic" Alan Hewetson, who died on January 6, 2004. Two of these stories were illustrated b...
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THE WILD NIGHT COMPANY, Irish stories of fantasy & horror

By: Haining, Peter (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Taplinger : 1971

Seller ID: 018216

ISBN-13: 9780800883355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

A collection of 22 stories, one traditional, and one each by Ray Bradbury (who also contributed a foreword) Giraldus Cambrensis, Daniel Defoe, Charles Robert Maturin, T. (Thomas) Crofton Croker, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Lady Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Riddell (Mrs. J. H. Riddell) William Carleton, George Moore, W. B. Yeats, A. E. Coppard, Francis (F.) Marion Crawford, James Joyce, Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson, Shane Leslie, Elliott O'Donnell, H. P. Lovecraft, and Sinead de Valera. Green cloth w/black spine lettering, 287 pages. Mild wear to corners/spine ends, in dust jacket w/light e...
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Tales of Fear and Fantasy

By: Hayes-Chetwynd, R.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Fontana 4678 / Collins : 1977

Seller ID: 019103

ISBN-13: 9780006146780

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Paperback original collecting seven stories from Britain's Prince of Chill. Stories include "Manderville," "The Day of the Underdog," "The Headless Footman of Hadleigh," "The Cost of Dying," "The Resurrectionist," "The Sale of the Century," and "The Changeling." 160 pages. A bit of edgewear, slight rubbing, a touch of handling wear. An internally tight and clean copy of an uncommon title.
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Nightmare No. 22, October/Oct. 1974/'74

By: Hewetson, Alan (editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Skywald Publishing Corporation : 1974

Seller ID: 017690

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

Illustrated horror stories from the delightfully demented mind of the sadly departed (and much-missed at this address) Archaic Al Hewetson, as well as pieces by Horror-Mood alums Ed Fedory, and Augustine Funnell. 66 pages. General wear.
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Bar the Doors!, Terror Stories

By: Hitchcock, Alfred (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Dell 143 : 1946

Seller ID: 018534

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A paperback original collecting 14 stories by an impressive line-up: "Pollock and the Porroh Man," by H.G. Wells, "The Storm," by McKnight Malmar, "Moonlight Sonata," by Alexander Woollcott, "The Half-Pint Flask," by DuBose Heyward, "The Kill," by Peter Fleming, "The Upper Berth," by F. Marion Crawford, "Midnight Express," by Alfred Noyes, "The Damned Thing," by Ambrose Bierce, "Couching at the Door," by D.K. Broster, "The Metronome," by August Derleth, "The Pipe-Smoker," by Martin Armstrong, "The Corpse at the Table," by Samuel Hopkins Adams, "The Woman at Seven Brothers," by Wilbur Daniel St...
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Poltergeist

By: Kahn, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Books : 1982

Seller ID: 018742

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Basis for the M-G-M film that starred JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight and Heather O'Rourke, and told the story of a family whose suburban home is invaded by ghosts of the malevolent variety. Black boards w/blood-coloured spine lettering, 183 pages. Spine cocked, light wear to corners/spine ends, short impression to top right edge of front cover, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/rubbing, impressions/scratches, light soil, short tears.
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From the Archives of Evil # / Number 2

By: Lee, Christopher, and Michel Parry (editors)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Books 88-215 : 1976

Seller ID: 018530

ISBN-13: 9780446882156

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

Canadian printing. Contains "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Lurking Fear," by H.P. Lovecraft, "Rope Enough," by John Collier, "Lost Face," by Jack London, "It," by Theodore Sturgeon, "The Rats of Doctor Picard," by Henry Slesar, "The Beast With Five Fingers," by W.F. Harvey, "Skeleton," by Ray Bradbury, "The 17th Hole at Duncaster," by H.R. Wakefield, "Gabriel-Ernest," by Saki (H.H. Munro), "The Ash-Tree," by M.R. Jones (at least that's what it says on the contents page, but hey, never believe a contents page, because this one turns out to have been writt...
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Coven

By: Lee, Edward

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Diamond 55773 / Berkley Publishing : 1991

Seller ID: 018705

ISBN-13: 9781557734228

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

This paperback original is an early novel by a modern-day master of horror, telling the heart-warming story of a group of delightful women who are "seductive angels of murder, madness, and horrors beyond imagining," and who somehow find time in their busy schedules to "feed their darkest hungers in a festival of perversion and death, demented orgies that serve a cruel, unspeakable will." As of this writing, neither Disney nor the Family Channel has expressed any serious interest in adapting the story for the big screen. Or the little screen. Or those tiny screens people carry around in their p...
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Monster Madness, No. 2 (#2)

By: Lee, Stan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Marvel : 1973

Seller ID: 009561

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good to Fine

A collection of old horror movie stills embellished with humourous captions. Cover features Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Basil Rathbone in a scene from Universal's 1939 release, "Son of Frankenstein." Horizontal crinkle (printing imperfection) to back cover.
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Monster Madness, No. 3 (#3)

By: Lee, Stan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Marvel : 1973

Seller ID: 009567

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

A collection of old horror movie stills embellished with humourous captions. Also contains movie reviews from Don McGregor and Tony Isabella, an article on "The Creature From The Black Lagoon," a look at the flesh-eating Wendigo, a Tony Isabella-written profile of horror master Robert Bloch, and other features. Cover reproduces a scene from the film, Bride of Frankenstein.
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Carmilla & The Haunted Baronet

By: LeFanu, Sheridan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Paperback Library 64-323 : 1970

Seller ID: 019107

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Presents two Gothic novellas by a master of the genre. In "Carmilla" we have a pair of beautiful, innocent young women who find themselves in an isolated castle (of course they do!), where "one is an ageless vampire, the other, an unsuspecting victim." "The Haunted Baronet" is a considerably lighter piece, offering us ancient evil and the terrible vengeance of a dead ancestor (hey, waitaminnit -- that doesn't seem any lighter at all). 221 pages + three pages advertising other Paperback Library titles. Light edgewear, thin reading crease to left edge of front cover, partial sticker pull to ...
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EARTH-BOUND, Nine Stories of Ireland

By: Macardle, Dorothy

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Worcester, The Harrigan Press : 1924

Seller ID: 018940

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Written while Macardle was a political prisoner in Dublin prisons (Kilmainham Gaol, which is now a museum, and Mountjoy Prison), the stories in this collection, while generally revolving around her experiences in the Irish Civil War, incorporate themes found in Irish legends and myths, including premonitions, ghosts and clairvoyance, making them more than simple ghost stories. Stories include the title piece, "Samhain," "The Brother," "The Prisoner," "The Return of Niav," "De Profundis," "By God's Mercy," "The Portrait of Roisin Dhu," and "A Story Without An End." Quarter blue cloth w/patter...
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La maison des damnes

By: Matheson, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: J'ai Lu 612 : 1975

Seller ID: 008307

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

French-language edition of Matheson's 'Hell House,' originally published in the US in 1971, and translated here by Patrick Reumaux. Eerie candelabra cover illustration. Some sunning to spine, light general wear. A very nice copy, internally tight and clean.
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The Shrinking Man

By: Matheson, Richard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Toronto, Bantam H3970 : 1969

Seller ID: 005743

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Canadian printing. First published as a paperback original by Gold Medal in 1956, this one concerns a man who has begun to shrink, and shrink, and shrink, and -- well, you get the gist. A great story, brilliantly told (but this is Matheson, so what else would you expect?). Cover illustration depicts a tiny man facing down a giant spider, his only weapon a hat pin. A bit cocked, moderate edgewear, handling wear/impressions, crease to upper left portion of back cover.
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Swan Song

By: McCammon, Robert R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket 62413 : 1987

Seller ID: 018524

ISBN-13: 9780671624132

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Canadian printing of the true first edition of this modern classic of post-apocalyptic horror. In the aftermath of a nuclear conflagration humankind will battle an ancient evil, and will find itself on a different evolutionary path, sparked in part by a little girl's empathy with plant life (or, sometimes, plant death). Co-winner of the 1987 Bram Stoker Award (with some struggling unknown named Stephen King, for some obscure novel titled 'Misery'). 956 pages. Strong convex spine roll (more common than sellers and collectors would like), thin reading creases, edge/corner wear, crease to bottom ...
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FRANKENSTEIN, The play by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning, The novel by Mary Shelley (signed)

By: Nowlan, Alden, Walter Learning, Mary Shelley

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Toronto & Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited : 1976

Seller ID: 018921

ISBN-13: 9780772010582

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A play inspired by Mary Shelley's classic story, and first performed (to much acclaim) on July 17, 1974, at The Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The text of Shelley's novel, edited and abridged by the playwrights, follows the play. Walter Learning has signed this copy on the dedication page. Charcoal cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 181 pages, illustrated w/three photographs of action from the play. A hint of wear to corners/spine ends, in like dust jacket w/some rubbing and light edgewear.
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Wet Work

By: Nutman, Philip

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Jove 11115 : 1993

Seller ID: 018688

ISBN-13: 9780515111156

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Author's first novel, an expanded version of his well-received short story of the same name. A comet that passes Earth leaves behind a virus that infects and kills humans, only to have them return as zombie cannibals. 262 pages + acknowledgments and three pages of advertisements for other Jove titles. Moderate handling wear, light edgewear, date stamp on bottom edge. Internally clean w/nice square spine.
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Category: Horror