Return from the Grave

by Lamb, Hugh, ed.

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First edition

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover near spine, no other significant shelfwear, light age-toning to edges of text block, tiny stain at right edge of front endpaper, one-time owner s name plus date place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, small check-marks next to most title in table of contents; the jacket shows only a touch of surface wear, and has a very short diagonal crease at the upper corner of the rear flap, but would grade as Near Fine but for the price-clipping)]. Anthology of horror stories about the dead rising from their graves to torment the living. Contents: Waxworks (W.L. George); Ingredient X (H.R. Wakefield); In the Tomb (Arthur Porges); Roxana Runs Lunatick (R. Murray Gilchrist); The Sistrum (Alice Perrin); The Coffin of Lissa (August Derleth); The Slype House (A.C. Benson); The Watcher (R.H. Benson); The Other Woman (Rosemary Timperley); Snow Time (Oswell Blakeston); The Tower of Moab (L.A. Lewis); Blue Eyes (Maurice Level); In the Shadows (Ramsey Campbell); Some Words with a Mummy (Edgar Allan Poe); Dad (John Blackburn); Composed of Cobwebs (Eddy C. Bertin); Death in the Well (Frederick Cowles); The Legion of Evil (Warren Ledge); The Wall (Robert Haining); At Simmel Acres Farm (Eleanor Scott). .

• Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company
• Year: 1977
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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