THE THRILL OF HORROR

First edition, first printing. Original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with is a previous owner's inscription on the front pastedown and some spotting to the closed text-block edge which sometimes extends onto the margins, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£3.50 on the front flap).

A critically acclaimed anthology of 22 tales of horror and the macabre including: 'Only a Dream' by H. Rider Haggard; 'The Meerschaum Pipe' by L. A. Lewis; 'The Life-Buoy' by A. Erskine Ellis; 'The Lady of Rosemount' by Sir T. G. Jackson; 'How It Happened' by John Gawsworth; 'In the Mirror' by Valery Brussov; 'Calling Miss Marker' by Joy Burnett; 'A Night of Horror' by Dick Donovan; 'The Shouting' by L. T. C. Rolt; 'The Happy Dancers' by Charles Birkin; 'The Weed Men' by William Hope Hodgson; 'Eyes for the Blind' by Frederick Cowles; 'Mr. Ash's Studio' by H. R. Wakefield; 'Montage of Death' by Robert Haining; 'Pallinghurst Barrow' by Grant Allen' 'Randall's Round' by Eleanor Scott; 'The Skeleton at the Feast' by E. H. Visiak; 'Medusan Madness' by E. H. Visiak; 'Out of the Sea' by A. C. Benson; 'Witch In-Grain' by R. Murray Gilchrist; 'The Tudor Chimney' by A. N. L. Munby; 'The Experiment' by M. R. James (notably the first edition in book form).