VAMPIRES OVERHEAD

by Alan Hyder

$2,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Philip Allan, 1935 . Octavo, pp. 1-4 5 6 7-248 249-256: ads , original orange cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Apocalyptic horror thriller, issued in conjunction with Creeps series; alien vampires come to earth via comet, devastate civilization. In one sense low-grade Wellsian SF, but highly entertaining in its own roughhewn fashion, also anticipating Colin Wilson's THE SPACE VAMPIRES by

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