Modern Tales of Horror selected by Dashiell Hammett

by Hammett, Dashiell, ed

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First edition

London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. First British edition, published in U.S. as Creeps By Night. With inserted slip about John Collier's Green Thoughts. 448 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Some foxing, very good plus in very good dust jacket (toned). First British edition, published in U.S. as Creeps By Night. With inserted slip about John Collier's Green Thoughts. 448 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A notable anthology of strange tales, including Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann", and stories by John Collier, Robert Dean Frisbie, André Maurois, Peter Fleming, Philip Macdonald, Hanns Heinz Ewers, L.A.G. Strong, W.B. Seabrook, Irvin S. Cobb, Conrad Aiken, Stephen Vincent Benét, Donald Wandrei, W. Elwyn Backus, Paul Suter, Michael Joyce, and Frank Belknap Long. Layman A5.2.a

• Publisher: Victor Gollancz
• Year: 1932
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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