Science fiction, utopian, fantasy & horror literature (1705-1938)
Elizabethtown, NY: L. W. Currey, Inc., 1993. Paperback. 119p., pictorial wraps, in very good condition. Catalogue 94. More
Cat.No: 310165
Horror fiction
This VOMIT BAG and the PRICE of one ADMISSION will enable YOU to see... the first film rated V for Violence. Mark of the Devil. Positively the most horrifying film ever made [promotional barf bag]
Philadelphia: Hallmark Releasing Corp. [1972]. Folded paper bag produced as a gimmick to promote the grotesquely violent German film about the torture of suspected witches. A penciled note on the bottom states that it was collected in New York in March 1972, when the 1970 film was released in the..... More
Cat.No: 273690
The Selected Works of Kevin J. Anderson: Shifting the Boundaries
Concord, CA: Dark Regions Press, 1994. Paperback. 101p., trade paperback, illus., signed, part of limited edition of 250 copies, a few faint marks to cover, else very good. Signed by both author (Kevin Anderson) and illustrator (Larry Dickison). Anderson is best known as a Star Wars and X-Files spin-off novelist..... More
Cat.No: 239104
The Selected Works: Shifting the boundaries, Sensuous debris, Southern discomfort, Mean little old lady at work
Concord, CA: Dark Regions Press, 1993-1995. Paperback. Four softbound books, various pagination, illustrations, short stories and poems, very good limited first editions of 250 signed and numbered trade paperbacks in glossy white pictorial wraps. Signed by both authors and illustrators. Anderson is best known as a Star Wars and X-Files..... More
Cat.No: 186294
Tales From an Invisible Continent
Los Angeles: Flying Machine Pub. 1994. Paperback. [ii] 110p., prologue, stories, author bio, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. First book by the Puerto Rican author living in Hollywood, California. More
Cat.No: 194593
Dispatches from the Border: fostering a sense of wonder; vol. 1, #3, October 1998
San Francisco: Borderlands Books, 1998. 12p. inckludes covers, 8.5x11 inches, photos of book covers, reviews of books, events, movie schedule, very good bookshop newsletter. Science fiction, fantasy and horror bookshop in San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 234462
Satan Was A Man; A Novel of Murder
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Hardcover. 292p., first edition, beige cloth boards with a brown pictorial plate decorating the cover, endpapers somewhat toned, boards lightly soiled, corners bumped, else in very good condition. This work of fiction dissects the mind of a murderer, meanwhile the story of..... More
Cat.No: 276596
The Films of Lon Chaney
Lanham MD: Vestal Press, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. xviii, 218p., numerous b&w photes, mostly production stills (not well-reproduced), first edition in naugahyde boards titled gilt and glossy dust jacket. A near-immaculate copy: jacket very faintly rubbed but still glossy (not edgeworn nor price-clipped), no ownership or other marks (except our SKU..... More
Cat.No: 230631
Rats on the train; a screenplay novel drama-horror
Twins Publishing Services, 2015. Paperback. 79p., a screenplay horror sequel, wraps slightly handled and yawning, else in very good condition. African American author. Signed and inscribed by the author. One holding found in OCLC (8/2022). Gegory David Bolling is a retireee from the New York City Housing Authority and a...... More
Cat.No: 290314
Subterranean Deliriums: a contemporary penny dreadful vol. 1, #1, Verano/Summer 2011 [a biannual publication]
no place: the journal, 2011. Magazine. 42p., 8.5x11 inches, bilingual texts in Spanish & English, illustrations, fiction, poetry & criticism, very good magazine format literary journal in stapled blue pictorial wraps. In which overeducated media freaks get down, elegantly. Epigraphs to this first issue are from H. P. Lovecraft, the..... More
Cat.No: 169969
Cultural Correspondence: No. 2, (August, 1976)
Austin, TX: Fly-by-NIght Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co., 1976. Magazine. 48p., wraps with pen markings, small pen hole in front wrap, 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrations. Includes Paul Buhle on horror literature and feminism, George Lipsitz on working people's music, and more. Cover reproduces an old ad for Co-operators' Best Coffee..... More
Cat.No: 231704
Cultural Correspondence: No. 2, August, 1976
Austin, TX: Fly-by-Night Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co., 1976. Magazine. 48p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrations, very good in stapled red pictorial wraps with light soiling. Includes Paul Buhle on horror literature and feminism, George Lipsitz on working people's music, and more. Cover reproduces an old ad for Co-operators' Best Coffee..... More
Cat.No: 181682
Forbidden lines: Experimental fiction, SF, Horror, Fantasy. April/May 1991
Chapel Hill, NC: Forbidden Press, 1991. Magazine. Single issue of the bimonthly publication, 8.5x11 inches, staplebound, newsprint mildly toned. More
Cat.No: 211624
Stagestruck vampires & other phantasms
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 2004. xvii, 328 p., very good paperback, signed by Charnas. More
Cat.No: 230977
Timber Pack Chronicles: book 1
no place: Self-published by the author, 2013. Paperback. 248p., very good second edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay werewolf story. More
Cat.No: 218788
Horror hospital unplugged
New York: Juno Books, 1996. Paperback. Unpaginated graphic novel written by the gay author; first edition (printed in Germany), 8.5x11 inch wraps, slight edgewear, a very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 148731
Cult Movies: So, just who the Heck is Ed Wood, anyway? #11; special Ed Wood, Jr. issue
Hollywood: Cult Movies/Buddy Barnett, 1994. 88p., 8x10.5 inches, newsprint guts, slick color covers, photos, ads, reviews, interviews, fiction, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on Edward D. Wood, Jr. including an interview, part two of a story by Wood, articles on Lugosi and Vampira etc. Published just..... More
Cat.No: 216126
Cinéaste; vol. 6, #3: Kung Fu Movies
New York: Cineaste Publishers, 1974. Magazine. 44p., 8.25x10.75 inches, photos, stills, very good film criticism magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Kung Fu movies, "The Exorcist". New Wave Cinema in India. Another look at "Spartacus" More
Cat.No: 166359
Bram Stoker, A Bibliography of First Editions, Illustrated.
London: Dracula Press, 1983. Paperback. 81p., provided with profuse title-page and frontis-portrait facsimiles (b&w), first edition of this bibliography, a softbound original. A surprisingly fine copy, really as-new: covers are gleaming and crisp, the alkaline paperstock untouched. More
Cat.No: 312557
The creatures of the night
New York: Vantage Press, 1995. 90p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Self-published, vanity press erotic thriller set in San Francisco. Personal inscription signed by the author. More
Cat.No: 158961
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Dreams & Swords [inscribed & signed]
Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1987. Paperback. 175p. + backlist, personal inscription signed and dated year of publication by the author, very good first edition trade paperback original in wraps. A collection of lesbian & gay themed short stories including Detective, Horror and Science Fiction. More
Cat.No: 303974
Las cuatro damas; un inquientante retrato oculta el secreto de un futuro apocalíptico
Barcelona: Scyla Editores, 2006. 222p., text in Spanish, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Signed by the author. Front flap text asserts that Sr Fort's story is H.P. Lovecraft-inspired: "Su interes por el universo lovecraftiano culmina con su primera novela, Las Cuatro Damas" More
Cat.No: 151947
Confronting the Horror; The Novels of Nelson Algren
Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1989. Hardcover. ix, 132p., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 11601
The Dowry: a novel
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1949. Hardcover. 244p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.25 inches, very good condition in a lightly worn and dampstained unclipped dj. Novel of an affair gone wrong, described on the dj as a "horror story in a sophisticated, modern setting." More
Cat.No: 265329