Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1944 Vintage Horror 1944 HC

by Herbert A. Wise

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First edition

CONDITION: First Modern Library Edition. 1944. Modern Library; Random House, NY. Very Good Hardcover. Jacket missing. Tan cloth boards w/ greenish cast & red accent. Red oval publisher device to front board. Red spine panel w/ gilt lettering. Very clean boards. Some rubbing & fading to spine. Bit of cracking to top of spine w/ mull showing. Binding solid & square. 1080 pp. 6x8x2. Printed by H. Wolff. Major horror & Gothic anthology edited by Herbert A. Wise & Phyllis Fraser collecting 52 stories from Poe, Lovecraft, Stoker, Collins, M.R. James, Wharton, Jacobs, de Maupassant, Stevenson, & Onions. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. SYNOPSIS: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural is a 1944 Modern Library anthology collecting 52 stories spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of horror, Gothic, ghost story, and weird fiction. Edited by Herbert A. Wise and Phyllis Fraser, the volume assembles contributors including Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Edith Wharton, W.W. Jacobs, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oliver Onions, among others. Lovecraft is represented by both The Rats in the Walls and The Dunwich Horror. At 1,080 pages, it remains one of the most substantial single-volume surveys of supernatural fiction produced during the mid-twentieth century. This 1944 First Modern Library Edition appears in the publisher's characteristic tan cloth boards with greenish cast, red spine panel with gilt lettering, and

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Year: 1944
• Condition: Very Good

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