THE ART OF HORROR STORIES: TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF SPINE-CHILLING ILLUSTRATIONS

by Peter Haining

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

Secaucus, New Jersey : Chartwell Books, Inc., 1986 . Large octavo, pp. 1-4 5-176, illustrations, pictorial boards. First U.S. edition. Survey focusing on illustrations in fantasy pulps from the 1920s through the 1940s, especially WEIRD TALES. Includes chapters on forerunners of the pulps – chapbooks, penny dreadfuls, and Victorian sensation fiction. Published earlier in the UK as TERROR! A HISTORY OF HORROR

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